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Gallery Opening
By Katherine Berube
10-27-04
The gallery opening featuring Robert and Hannah Poe
opened recently in the Spiers Gallery in the Simms Art
Building. The show features sculptures and mobiles made
from gourds, photomontage and vibrant paintings.
Hannah Poe created her sculptures from dried gourds that
have been wood-burned and stained or painted. These
beautiful sculptures are inspired by Native American pottery,
featuring many natural themes and organic designs.
Robert Poe, a former Brevard drawing and painting
professor, created photomontages, or collages of
photographs, with various images such as gourds and
staircases. His paintings are colorful and vibrant acrylic paint
on stretched canvas.
Robert and Hannah Poe live in Greenville, South Carolina
and they are professors at Lander University.
Open Handle Basket
Twirling Totem
The Grudge
By Matt Rutherford
11-10-04
Make sure to strap yourself in when you go see “The
Grudge”. This is just a minor precaution to prevent you
from jumping out of your seat every time a character
looks or the camera moves around a comer. “The Grudge”
is the one of the best Halloween feature ghost films of the
new century. Takashi Shimizu stylishly reinvents Ju On:
The Grudge for the American public.
The main setting is a house on the outskirts of Tokyo,
which was the scene of several deaths and tragedies. The
evil from these events lingers in this house, and its dark
curse will capture and latch on to any who enter its
frightening confines. However as usual the main question
that everyone asks about a horror flick is: What makes it
so scary? In this case it is not what you see but more what
you glimpse and hear. For example: Quick flashes of
ghostly apparitions, sounds of footsteps creaking doors,
and the infamous screeching string ensemble playing in
the back ground.
Sarah Michelle Gellar plays Karen, an American exchange
student in Japan who works for a social care agency. Its
Karen who stumbles upon the secret of the house when
she is assigned to check on a patient after the previous
social worker has gone missing. She finds herself in an
unsettling position, with an elderly woman who cannot
speak and a boy who vanishes and makes cat noises.
Shimizu has put such a great effort into making the visual
aspect of the movie that he forgets the story and that the
common American is not quite so well read on Japanese
folklore and legends. The legends stem from ancient
Japanese history and mystical traditions. For example, it is
said in Japan that when someone dies in the grip of a great
and terrible rage, a curse is left behind, and it never
forgets. This lets the house itself become a character. Its
looks quite beautiful but at the same time there is
definitely an eerie feel about the house. Not to mention the
interior is very bleak, colorless and empty, leaving the
house open for those oh-so-flin bumps in the night.
Some people will find the open-ended finale a major
disappointment. But one must consider that the original
film spawned two sequels, which did just as well in the
box office as the first film. It is speculated that the studio
that made the film is keeping its options open. Never the
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