With Halloween fast approaching Saturday, sources of gruesome and frightening displays are in great demand, and the University Museum is willing to supply.
The museum's exhibition "The Expanding Eye" features pieces of art inspired by the works of Edgar Allan Poe. The art is meant to emphasize Poe's craving for knowledge of creativity and the world beyond tangible reality. With 19 pieces of work, the showcase managed to surpass all my expectations, and it puzzled, horrified, enthralled and chilled me every step of the way.
In a synopsis of the display, Stephen Margulies, the museum's volunteer curator, wrote, "Each shock, sometimes horrible in itself, opens up huge psychological or spiritual territory."
Each piece of art portrays the artist's interpretation of one of Poe's stories or poems, and Poe himself is even featured in one piece by F
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