A Mondrianesque Elevator Shaft

I am SUPER BUSY at work right now, working crazy long hours and racing from one project deadline to the next. That’s what’s so funny about the current state of my phone’s camera roll: It is brimming with new photos taken this week and last.

I can hardly think straight, but everywhere I go, I see potential photographs—things I need to whip out my phone and take a picture of PRONTO! It’s like one part of my brain is exhausted, so another part of my brain is stepping up?

Anyway, it looks like my blog posts are going to be a bit photo heavy into the foreseeable future 🙂

The image below is from today. It’s a view through the elevator shaft in the glass atrium of the Grohmann Museum, the building I work in. I was coming back to my office from getting water for my coffee maker (super busy = lots of coffee) when I happened to glance over across the gallery and noticed all the cool lines of varying angles and thickness.

Reminds me a little of Mondrian’s work and also the work of Edward Lewandowski, a Milwaukee precisionist artist I’ve only lately discovered, whose paintings of the Edmund Fitzgerald are featured in the Grohmann Museum’s special exhibition marking fifty years since that ship’s sinking.

A Mondrianesque view through a glass elevator shaft, with lots of right angles and parallel lines of varying thicknesses

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About Katherine Wikoff

I am a college professor (PhD in English, concentration rhetoric) at Milwaukee School of Engineering, where I teach film and media studies, political science, digital society, digital storytelling, writing for digital media, and communication. While fragments of my teaching and scholarship interests may quite naturally meander over to my blog, this space is intended to function as a creative outlet, not as part of my professional practice. Opinions are my own, etc.
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