6/24

(Daily Reflection)

Ilene

"I learned a bit more about men and woman’s relationships, where they meet and how they interact. I also learned about “The Shelter” which was a neat place, and the artist “Ebon Heath”. I saw his art, and I also saw the inside of a spa in which woman took off their Sheila and some their Abaya. It is amazing how just being a woman in Dubai one can feel like, and one really is like a member to an exclusive club. As far as obstacles go, there were only two I can think of. The first was while broken into groups we had cover 11 pieces of wood. The obstacle was thinking of how to cover them. We all worked together and separately. We came up with our own ways of covering it, however helped each other in doing so, like Alia helping Bora glue down Boras’s cloth. The second obstacle was trying to get a van cab when coming home from the Macotta mall. We ended up just taking two cabs though."

Alia

“Today I enjoyed helping Ebon Heath with his instillation I loved the fact that he used 16 different languages to try and communicate with as much people as possible. I think it is really inspiring because art is universal. After leaving shelter, which was an interesting place to be in, we went back to our campus. We were handed 11 pieces of wood to cover with whatever we want, basically the sky was our limit. We thought it would be interesting to let each girl do her own but we would help each other through the process because then we would know each others styles and we would have 11 different styles rather than 11 that look almost the same. And I didn’t feel that we faced any difficulties today it was really smooth working with the girls in my group.”


Fatma

"Helping out Ebon and Mona in their instillation was a good experience. Although we only spent few hours doing that it was good to participate and help out. I liked Shelter as a place I found it to be a great place for networking and holding business meetings. The only bad thing about the trip for me was wasting time waiting for the artists. Overall I think the whole thing wasn’t planned well. I’ve seen pictures of the final show installed and to be frank I was disappointed. The instillation was set in a white room and the instillation parts were white visually I found that to be unattractive. Also the scale of it comparing to the works we’ve seen on Ebon’s website was also disappointing. My guess the reason for that is maybe it’s because they had limited time and didn’t get enough help from people around. Or maybe it was to ambitions to the resources they had.”

After our participation in assisting Ebon and Mona's installation we went back to the studio and started putting information on 11 woods of block as a starting point for the collaborative group project.

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