Michael Betz McColl artist lecture 3/17/11

The lecture was very interesting and unique. Or in other words, Betz's work was interesting and unique. How he perceives space and how he manipulates it. I never thought of the idea of how we get controlled by the space that is around us. For example, if the table is round we are supposed to sit in a circle. However, he changed the traditional way we perceive space. Like the dining table or the sketch of the circular table with a family sitting inside of it. I also liked the work with the molds of feet. It is amazing how he did the radial perspective of the feet. It is amazing how his mind works. I thought of him as a unique artist when I saw the belly button and the ear plastered on the buildings. When I saw the ear on the building it conveyed a lot of meaning to me even though he only said "I just walked up to the building and got some plaster and made an ear". It reminded me of the saying"even walls have ears". It is like a sign that the building can hear what the residents there are thinking and saying every time they pass it.