Author: Wataru Ando

https://media.lafayette.edu/media/Wataru+Performance+Video/1_xe8gkf77

iSushi

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Instructions on Listening to “250 Year History of Fishing in Easton”

 

1. Please use earphones, and attach each piece into your ear.
2. If possible, please make your way to the Riverside Park, right below the Free Bridge, where the Delaware River can be seen.
3. If you are listening on iTunes, please go to the Equalizer in the Window tab, and change the setting to “Spoken Word”.
4. Press play, and slowly make your way toward where the overlook area near the Larry Holmes Statue, where you can see where the Delaware and the Lehigh Rivers meet.
5. Please make your way to outlook area of the two rivers by 2 minutes 45 seconds.
6. At this point, please look towards the convergence area, and enjoy the rest of the sound art.

This artwork is intended to everyone, especially to those who appreciate the long history behind the City of Easton, and those who are fond of fishing. The document being read in this piece is from 1769, and is a Proclamation made by John Penn, the Governor of Pennsylvania at the time to preserve the fish population. I never realized how much history is behind the fish preservation, especially in the Lehigh and the Delaware River. Thus I wanted this piece to make it a reminder that the fish we catch in these rivers are made possible by the people who worked on preserving the fish population even before the United States became a country.

 

One of my favorite places to study on this campus is the Math Lounge, which is located on the second floor of Pardee Hall. It is also the quietest place I know on campus on Friday afternoons and Sunday nights.

AC:

Chairs Moving:

Typing on Laptop:

Flipping Through Notebook:

Coughing (I’m still kinda sick):

Writing on Chalkboard:

Erasing Chalkboard:

Elevator Sound:

Key Dangling:

Vacuum:

Vending Machine:

Doors Opening and Closing:

Footsteps:

Basketball Bouncing:

Basketball Shooting:

 

 

I titled this photograph “13” for two reasons. One is that I fell, thus the unlucky number 13. The other is the fact that the size of images are in a Fibonacci Sequence. The first and the second images are the same size of 1, then 2, 3, 5, 8, and the largest is 13 times bigger than the first image. Since I am a math major, I thought it would be interesting to use some math in the art.

The responses were all over the place. On Facebook, I usually make comments such as #FakeNews to joke around with my friends, thus my friends did the exact same thing to this post.

The original image, from the 2015 Ukrainian Brawl, contains a golden ratio. As a result, the chaotic image of the congressmen fighting also was simultaneously very beautiful and peaceful. Therefore, I wanted to see what would happen if the golden ratio was distorted by creating a glitch in the image.