San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Seeing the fountain in real life was great having studied it and its significance to modern art. It was a lot cleaner that I thought it would be??? I dont know why but I kinda thought it would be used and dirty. Which I guess would be kind of gross. I also didn't realise that its not the original one, and that the original one was lost - the one in the MoMa was a replica. It was curated with other 'readymade' works of art including a pool table that had the balls stuck down - rendering it useless as a game but functional as a piece of furniture.

I really enjoyed the work of Arshile Gorky, an American born abstract expressionist. I liked the bold shapes outlined by a heavy black outline, and thought it would be a good reference point for my drawings which are often quite abstract. After seeing this I thought that perhaps I could look to abstract expressionist art to create spectacles from - a lot like the process I using for the Wall to Wall exhibition.

There was work by __ that showed both his 2D prints and his sculpture. There was an obvious correlation between the two but it was not explicitly a replica of the what was depicted in the print. For example there was a cobalt blue sculpture of a Shetland pony but the blue pony in the print - whilst clearly a pony - did not have defined features and was more ambiguous. However by using the same blue there is an obvious link between the two. In the print with the cucumbers on the leopard print cushion, the cucumbers are crossed, however in the 3D sculpture there are 3 of them and they are standing upright with hazelnuts on top of them. However you can see the link again because of the colour palette. The side of the box says 'tres ases' which means three aces - which could describe the 3 cucumbers.