At this point it seems likely that I simply did not pay enough attention during my visits, but there were yet again projects on display that I wasn't even aware were being made during the WIP day.
One such project was the music made by unknowing passers-by, by taking a photo every minute and writing notes depending on where each person was. The result was not some disjointed, rhythmless noise like one might expect, but a quite peaceful and even beautiful tune. That really struck me.
There was another project, a television that, if I recall correctly, was just labeled 'video.' All the TV showed, however, was the history channel, leading me to believe that a mistake had been made and the intended video was not being shown. Unless of course the showing of the history channel was an artistic statement. What that statement might be, though, I'm afraid I can't say.
I never did find out what was with the ceramics and the grinding. The project was titled Colonialistic Tourism, but I'm afraid that doesn't really help me understand.
The newspaper headline is from Zimbabwe. It reads "21-Day Quarantine for Ebola Suspects." According to the artist's description, the article the headline was taken from stated that people coming to the Zimbabwe from countries in which there has been an outbreak of Ebola will be quarantined. I'm not sure what to make of it, to be perfectly honest. Admittedly, I'm not well-versed in world affairs or even local ones, nor what legal quarantine entails, so what thoughts I do have would be ill-informed and probably best kept to myself.
I still really like Acts of Mann, which, the description makes clear, is a drawing of the fight between Jack Johnson and James Jefferies as a metaphor for racism in America and the struggles caused by it. It is very skillfully drawn and the symbolism is strong enough to leave a person thinking long after viewing the piece.
I am quite intrigued by the idea behind Long Lost. No one, I think, is simply one person. Though the extent to which varies from person to person, we are all many personalities occupying one body, and I think Long Lost does help to demonstrate that.
As you said in class, John painted over several of the tags and items on his net. You told us his reasons for doing this but I'm afraid I cannot recall it. My guess is that he obscured their appearance to emphasis the losses they represent. Or was it to symbolize them being obscured by a fading memory, suggesting that we should allow time to blur the past and stop dwelling?
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