What a pleasure it was to have an extraordinary, multimedia artist come to our Art 102 class. Bruce Conkle works with two-dimensional, three-dimensional, and four-dimensional time-based art. His time-based art has had the greatest impact on me and my understanding of art has changed. Many of his works have a political aspect, but are not hypocritical. His work presupposes a message that the viewer must interpret. Conkle's art has a mystery and dark humor. A person can have an idea of ​​art such as ancient paintings and marble sculptures. Through this course, and especially Conkle's visit, I realized that many other art forms exist. When you see Conkle's work in an exhibition, he creates a space that includes everything in it as a single work of art. I wanted to experience it firsthand, so I ventured to the corner of SW 6th Street and W Burnside in downtown Portland. He created three statues in bronze and cast concrete. Two of them represent the snowman tree and its interpretation of Brancusi's Endless Column sculpture, Burls will be Burl. He told the class that people might ruin art, so...