Students
and guests who take time to relax in the Campus Center lobby are greeted
by works contributed by two Mission College art students. The paintings
hang on the walls adjacent to the windows that overlook the Quad. On the
north wall, visitors see "The Green Man" by Sarah Moffitt (left).
Part of a group of paintings from her mythologies series, this work by Moffitt
(based on a Celtic myth) is representative of masculinity in nature and
at the same time a symbol of fertility. Overall, said Moffitt, it reinforces
a state of balance in the world. On
the north wall hangs "Writing" (right) by Orlando Martinez. The painting
gives us his rendering of "…the abstract nature of language." Martinez,
a two-time Getty Museum grant recipient, said "Language can be just a bunch
of formatted lines, but the lines that make up language can be engaging
and sublime." Martinez uses graffiti as a departure to explore this abstract
idea. |