Fall Faculty Exhibition at Broward College Central Campus.

Niko Yulis 
Arcus Augmented Report
Mixed Media 

Teresa Diehl
Repita
Installation

I had the opportunity to be today at the Broward College Central Campus Faculty Exhibition where I had the pleasure to see most of my A.A. teacher's work. Niko Yulis, the ceramics, showed a total of 6 mixed media paintings on panel and Teresa Diehl, the photography teacher, put together a dynamic installation called "Repita" (Repeat in English).

I admire a lot Niko's work because it's all about layers and meticulous delicate precise manual elaboration. The color combination and the composition based on non-representational forms are balanced through the scale and shape of the panel: a square. The level of experimentation and the use of new materials creates new ways of perception and asks for my attention. Somehow I can see how the use of glazes on ceramic pieces have influenced the way he uses paint and colors.

Now, Teresa Diehl's piece made me feel speechless. A cyclical moving desk, lamp, books, boards, projections and cut out words composed the overall of the piece. The relation between the word "Repeat" and the piece recalls how education uses dictation and repetition for the purpose to memorize something that students might not even understand. Delicate cut outs of different words from the dictionary laid down on the floor as if they were forgotten or useless. The boards, which were found objects with actual random words that students had written before, were organized as if it was inside of a classroom. All this installation was complemented with a kid's song that would loop every minute with a black and white video of soldiers. The atmosphere created by Teresa started as a naif or innocent classroom that as the chair is moving and the music is playing becomes this absurd repetitive cycle of imagery based on human abuse of power asking ourselves: are we really learning?