This past week I went to the MFA for a gallery visit. While there I wondered towards the contemporary art section of the museum. In one exhibition room I found a piece by Nathan Craven called Poros. This piece is actually multiple pieces together as one. The work was built to fit into the window in the museum. Around 6,000 fired clay elements were placed together to fill the window. The clay objects vary in size but their length is relatively the same throughout the piece. The centers are mostly empty to allow light to pass through. The ends of the pieces are glazed with colors of greens and blues but the insides of most of them are left uncolored. No matter what angle you are at when looking at the work, the light passes through the clay elements in front of you making it feel like you are the center of the piece. The light passing through the elements acts as a tunnel from where you stand in relation to the piece. I like this piece because it is calming and is done on a very large scale. The pieces do not appear to be attached to each other, but rather rest on each other as if they are stacked to fill the square window space. If one piece is taken out, the force from the other objects would shift to hold the weight, but they would no longer fit together in the same way and other elements around it might be damaged or broken with the absence of one single piece. This is a lot like life at MassArt in some ways. We all support each other and taking away one person can cause a shift of atmosphere. I also like the piece because it is a divide between you on the inside of the museum and the outside world. The light passing through the hollow elements makes one feel as if there is light at the end of the tunnel. Hope and inspiration is something I search for and I found it in this work.