Ken Fandell – Visitor Response Cards
What do you notice when you slow down and look closely?
As part of The Living Room at The Block Museum, Student Associates invited visitors to respond to close-looking prompts designed to spark observation, interpretation, and conversation. These prompts encouraged participants to draw connections between what they see and what they think — on their own or in dialogue with others.
On this page, we’ve gathered a selection of those reflections collected during the presentation of Ken Fandell's “The Sky Above My Home (10/7/2002–6/14/2003, Chicago, Illinois)” Together, they capture the many ways our community engages with art and show how thoughtful looking can open up new ideas, questions, and perspectives.
LOOK – The Sky Above My Home (10/7/2002–6/14/2003, Chicago, Illinois)
What adjectives or emotions would you use to describe this work to a friend?
What do you see that makes you feel this way?
THINK – The Sky Above My Home (10/7/2002–6/14/2003, Chicago, Illinois)
This photograph is titled The Sky Above My Home (10/7/2002–6/14/2003, Chicago, Illinois). It is a composite image that digitally combines photographs of the sky taken over 250 days.
Does knowing the title or how it was made change your interpretation?
What new questions, if any, does this information raise for you?
CONNECT – “ The Sky Above My Home (10/7/2002–6/14/2003, Chicago, Illinois)
This work may prompt us to think about our relationships to places that make us feel at home.
What does home mean to you?
Has your definition of home changed over time? Why or why not?
