Chuck Close At The Gallery

I went to the art gallery to see Chuck Close's work, and based on the images of some og his pieces that we had seen in class I was not sure I was going to like his work very much. However, when i got there i really liked the mirror pictures. These were a small rectangle of material like mirror that actrually had a daguerrotype of people on it. The images, though, were not seen unless you stood right infornt of them and gave them color. I thought that not only were these very interesting because of how they worked but also because of the menaning that I found on them. As I thought back to them i think that the pieces were trying to tell us that stories and people only exist when we "look" at them. It seemed like they were not there until i stood right infornt of them and foucsed my attention on them and for some reason this metaphor with life, where people's stories don't really exist until you know about them, was very impacting. I thought that it was very nice to go and look at art and although I sometimes go to galleries it is something that I enjoy and I should do more often.