Emily Ryan - Artist Lecture

For this portion of class I chose to go to see the artist David Dunlap. Unfortunately, he was running extremely late for the lecture, about an hour, and I had to leave before he arrived. What I had learned about him before I, and most of the people there left, was that he is an artist that enjoys the documentation of his life and his art. The phrases that stuck out to me when one of his colleagues was speaking of him were that his work features honest typography, and has no clear beginning or end but still works chronologically. He is concerned with small details with an Andy Warhol like obsessiveness.  He scrutinizes and documents the world with small drawings and scribbling.  He is a walnut farmer. He keeps journals and notebooks and continuously documents. He seemed like a very interesting person and artist, it was a shame I wasn’t able to hear and meet him.  He reminds me that I also need to make sure I make note of significant (or not significant) things in my daily life, that can in the future inspire me or make me smile in remembrance.