Icarus
My dear friend and former roommate Sara recently posted a video of herself doing a painting in a temporary tunnel over the Quarter Mile at RIT. The Quarter Mile (which is actually about a third of a mile) went from the sundial on the dorm side to the Infinity Quad on the academic side, so I walked it almost every day until I moved out of the dorms at the end of my junior year. The temporary "tunnel" was erected late in my freshman year when they started the Gordon Field House. I don't remember when they tore it back down, but I remember thinking that, at that point in my time at RIT, it had been there longer than it hadn't, so it was weird to see it go.
After the thing was built, RIT had a bunch of artists paint panels in it. I have no idea how they chose the people to do it, but Sara painted Icarus in one panel (see the final product in her gallery). I walked past it almost every day for a couple years, but I didn't realize at the time that she had done it because I barely knew her then.
Most of my fondest memories are of seemingly insignificant shit like this: walking past a bunch of paintings from people I didn't know at the time, watching CMT's Top 20 with BP, our weekly Iron Chef get-togethers. It's always the little things that seem most important in retrospect.
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... and those paper signs
... and those paper signs that anonymous persons had taped-down to the Quarter-Mile pathway saying, simply but so loudly you would laugh when you read them...
"Look up more!!!"
Because on a campus that huge, we were a student body crowd of loners, so often looking down at our feet and thinking we were alone - as we moved to avoid the bustle of everyone around us.
Yeah... it was always the small things of so big a place.
Good post, Randy. :)
{Now you've got me all nostalgic!}
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Plus - I didn't know you had
Plus - I didn't know you had been roomies with Sara!!!!
I know her from RIT Singers. I actually sat next to her quite often.
:) How strange and cool a connection.
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Yeah, we lived together for
Yeah, we lived together for the last six months I was at RIT, give or take. You and me, we're only two degrees apart, except for the part where we know each other.
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I didn't know that Sara
I didn't know that Sara painted that! I used to love looking at that painting when walking through the tunnels. She's frickin' talented. I knew that you and Jym are friends with her but didn't realize you were roomies. Cool.
That happened not because of
That happened not because of RIT. That happened because of Paul's Public Arts committee, which was hell bent on putting more art up on campus, to get the people that had nothing to do with art aware that art exsisted on campus. Otherwise I gaurantee that would have remained wooden and ugly, or a place of greek art, pun not intended.
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