The first two times I came to SOFA was with a group of art students from my previous university in Missouri, 2007 and 2008. This time, it is nice that I do not have to take an eight hours train and pay for an expensive hotel.
For the most part, SOFA is very similar from what I remembered. Countless booths and people everywhere in a room the size of a football field. There was mostly scupltural objects in there, very decorative. Seldomly I saw some paintings behind all the pedistools. There are some fiber pieces here and there too. Jewreys are very rasy to find too. Withi the sculptures, many of them are made out of glass with appealing colors. However, I did feel those objects are very familiar looking compare to previous SOFA events. I bet I can almost say that I even recognice few of them from 2008.
The artwork that left me the stongest imperssion are some crayon picture pieces by Christian Faur. They are not paintings even though from far away they read like paintings. They basically are made out of crayon heads. Depends on the different color of the heads, they are placed in a wood frame to make images of little children. The images are very realisitic accurate from a distance. Usually they have limited colors on each one, creating some sort of narrative with the picture of a child.
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