This piece of art was in the Hugh Lane Gallery today. It is a piece by Anne Madden and her Colours of the Wind collection. I chose this because it caught my eye and was my favorite of that collection. I felt it had a lot of depth behind it as it looked like several things, as I saw it as being an eye or a vagina. Both of those things I felt can be very powerful in a work of art. This gallery struck me because I’ve always loved art, and throughout my childhood my love for art galleries has grown and grown. When I was younger and on family vacations we always went to various art galleries throughout the US and throughout London and France where I went many moons ago. The art gallery had almost a comforting sense of place for me. Since traveling to a foreign country is not something I do on a regular basis I feel like on this trip I’m always doing something out of my parameters and comfort zone. I think the gallery made this sense of place to me because of the art in it. Art is something that everyone can enjoy. It’s something where you can appreciate the raw talent and emotion of someone else, and thats extremely powerful. The sense of place an artist has in a gallery is different than one of a bystander I believe. My sister is an artist, so when we used to go to different art museums that place had a different meaning to her than it did me. I find it amazing that this art gallery can bring so many people together and give people a sense of place. It’s a sense of place to just enjoy the raw talent an artist has, and take in all of the knowledge and emotion behind someone.