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Lee Piechocki* "Still Life With Two-Headed Eagle." Oil and enamel. **PHOTO BY RACHEL SCHULTZ**
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Walking into the Wonder Fair in downtown Lawrence you may think you're in just another shop on Massachusetts Street. But after walking upstairs, you'll see a gallery off in the southwest corner of the store, filled with neon-colored drawings, paintings and sculptures.
The exhibit "Chop Chop" by Lee Piechocki and Matt Jacobs is full of neon colors and peculiar scenes, reminiscent of pop art. The artists collaborated their works for the display, using various unconventional elements to create the scene, from acrylic paint and clothespins to Tic Tacs and pencil erasers shaped like skulls.
Piechocki had a range of inspirations for his work and made it a goal to fill one sketchbook a week, he says in a statement from the Wonder Fair. The series of eclectic drawings "I've Been Crazy This Week" came from a conversation overheard on the subway one day, in which a woman was complaining about her hectic schedule, for example.
Much of Jacob's art came from an eight-week artist's residency in Seydifjörður, Iceland, where the residency gave Jacobs time, space and facilities to make art. Since materials were limited, Jacobs says he would do things out of curiosity, like see what he could make with just one piece of paper, for example. Many times, his drawings would relate to his sculptures and back again, but this time in a less literal way.
"It still looks like my work, and you can see a connection between the two. I just had different materials to convey the same ideas." Jacobs says.
Although it may look spontaneous (and some of it is), Meredith Moore, co-owner of the Wonder Fair, says that the artists were actually quite particular in creating each display. "He thinks really hard about where to put that candy cane or that glob of paint."
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--because they are more motivated and ravenous when they play teams that BCS schools.
It's hard for a big name program like Kansas to get motivated to play against a mid-major team even if it's for a trip to the Final Four, as fans saw last season. Not to discredit VCU's performance against Kansas, but Kansas played its worst game of the season, shooting 35.5 percent from the court, 9.5 percent from behind the arc and a paltry 53.6 percent from the free-throw line. Statistically, Kansas was awful, but the team's effort and energy was just as bad. The Jayhawks were simply flat and lethargic. They simply overlooked and undermined Cinderella.
If Kansas played against a BCS school instead of a mid-major in last year's Elite Eight game, I firmly believe that they would have played much better and advanced to the Final Four.
The Jayhawks have what it takes to go all the way, but they also did last year. Cinderella is waiting, and Jayhawk Nation hopes that her slipper won't fit this time around.
— Edited by Tanvi Nimkar
on Kansas City and the big 12 tournament.
The Jayhawks earned the tournament's top seed for the ninth time in its 16-year existence and are looking to capture their 13th Big 12 tournament championship.
"Going into the season, a lot of people didn't have faith in us because we lost so much last year," junior guard Travis Releford said Monday afternoon. "But if you think about it, all the guys that are playing, we've been here a while. We know what coach wants and we know how to run the system."
Releford said the team has had something to prove since the beginning of the season because of doubting fans.
A head-scratching loss to Davidson in December made Bill Self question just how good his team was, but a 16-2 league record and eighth consecutive conference regular season championship re-asserted Kansas as the cream of the crop in the Big 12.
The team is 19-2 since that loss to Davidson but Self thinks the team still has room for improvement heading into postseason play.
"I haven't been defending how I was at the start of the season and I feel that going into post-season that I can step it up a lot more," Releford said. "He knows that I can be that guy that can step up and stop someone on the opponent's team."
He's stressed the importance of finding a "defensive stopper" on numerous occasions and admitted his words were a message to a few players.
Self said great defense was all about a person's mindset, not something a team can just decide to practice one week and magically get better at. He thinks Releford, junior guard Elijah Johnson and senior guard Tyshawn Taylor can all improve defensively.
But the month of March brings more than just on-court adjustments.
"I think distractions have
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"It would be great," Self said. "Because that means we won two games."
things I probably notly about more than anything else."
In the short term, the biggest distraction might be the talks of a possible meeting between Kansas and Missouri in the tournament championship Saturday night.
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Junior guard Travis Releford drives into the lane during the second half of a game against Missouri earlier this season. The Jayhawks could face the Tigers again in the Big 12 Tournaments.