Wednesday, October 25, 2006

What's the point?

So my friend and I were walking around UCF today noticing all the so-called art pieces...not intentionally trying to find them, more like stumbling upon these...creative...things...and we both decided there is ABSOLUTELY no point in trying to understand why they exist. We stood, sat and endured the "brutal frigid temperatures" of Florida trying to come up with some sort of logical explanation for these objects to be so strategically placed around campus.

Some had signs, which we read, that told us absolutely nothing. He and I honestly tried to give the artist the benefit of the doubt and came up with some pretty moving and deeply touching insights, the pieces spoke to us...

... ok so I lied, we definitely didn't try that hard, most of the time we pondered for about 2.5 seconds and moved on...unless of course there was a sign attached and stayed for 5 seconds. Although we did learn that one of the pieces was loaned to UCF...which makes it all the more fantastic that someone decided it was worth having and thus borrowed it from someone else. Why?

Really, there's no reason for the artist to have spent so many hours on these things because, yeah maybe it helped them express themselves, but don't you actually want others to understand what you're expressing? Unless, of course, the point ALL the artists, who created the UCF pieces, was to impart confusion. Because, if indeed, that was their goal...well...congratulations, you all succeeded!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

ummm yes I'm commenting again. WHAT IS THE DEAL WITH TWO ANDS?!?!! && I just don't get it... ugh. dang myspace (i say that as a full-fledged member of myspace-addicts anonymous... i just love being able to make my page pretty and add music!)