Wk 6 — Artist Interview — Emily Babbette

I was inspired by Emily’s professional painting as soon as I entered in Max L. Gatov Gallery East. Emily was sit just outside the gallery and she is very pretty just like her paintings. All of her paintings are portraits and they are all have a interesting story. To me it is amazing that she told us that the persons which are all her friends was the bridge between her arts and music cause the most of her friends are musicians. This special personal story made her painting more meaningful.

Emily spent almost 30 hours to completed her painting, she often went to visit her friend or invited them to her house as a way to finish painting, so her paintings are very natural and the process even she was tired but also full of fun.  “I see a red door and I want to paint it black”  this is a song sang by The Rolling Stones which inspired Emily with her painting. Music is very important to her and really had a great influence to Emily like she told us.

Emily also have a painting of her younger sister who is now 23, even their interests are quite different they can always share different opinion, ideas and see things in different angles so that they can learn new things together.

Wk 6 — Classmate Interview — Mary Quach

I interviewed Mary Quach this week who is an Asian-American, her  father is from Vietnam and her mother is a Chinese. Quach  is 19 and she was born and grew up in American that is why she can not speak English. She has two brothers and her old brother is in Yale University who also can speak Chinese. As a Chinese, I always excited to speak to students who is from Asian.

Quach did not choose her major yet but she has classes of  anthropology, Chinese and Greek Mythology despite of  Arts. I have been here in America for more than half years but I did not know people in America may like spicy but Quach did. She likes seafood especially fish, food from Thailand and Mexico are her favorite. Of all the colors Quach like blue best even any shade of blue is ok to her.

Maybe I was too excited that it is me who kept talking most of the time. We talked about food and languages, she seemed interested in Chinese language. I would like to tell her more about Chinese dialects but as it is so complicated I did not explain too much. As a Chinese,I hope Mary can spent more time to learn Chinese culture and most importantly learn Chinese language first.And I hope I can see her in China one day.