I was very shocked when I went to the Art Walk-In. I wasn't expecting it at all to be in as big as a space that it was. I thought it would be one floor with just a few pieces so I was really taken aback when I saw everything on all the different floors. I thought it was really cool having live people play while everyone walked around and looked at the art, it made everything feel more comortable and you could really talk to the artists and people around you. Whenever I think of an art gallery for some reason I think you have to be proper and quite but this experience totally through that out the window.

The installation in the basement was awesome. At first I didn't even see the pieces, I really thought there was free bowling. Once I saw all the pieces themselves though I realized what it actually was. I enjoyed how everyone had such drastic differences in their specific piece, but as a whole the installation came together really well. I especially liked how a couple of them seemed to be made out of cardboard. It was really cool to see how they transformed something so rugged and straight into a bowling pin, which is much more smooth and curved.

During my time at the walk-in I spoke with a man named Larry Ney. Most of his pieces were different paintings dealing with floral images and landscapes. I asked him how he gets his ideas and he said he'll usually pick if he's going to make a floral image or a landscape but from there he'll just start marking around the canvas with a certain color and eventually branch off. The amazing thing was he said he never went to school or had any educational background dealing with art, he just liked it and kept with it. His pieces were really painted well for not having any artistic background. All in all I was really happy with my time at the art walk.