The Kaprow article placed an
interesting emphasis on the daily boring routines that usually no one notices
and pointed out how the actions we so easily do now were so hard to do and
difficult to learn as children. I also like how he basically paid so much
attention to what he was doing that he felt new things, like the tension in his
elbow, which I relate to when a word is repeated over and over, usually out
loud, when it loses meaning. I didn’t like this article because it just doesn’t
seem like art to me, and more of just an observation, but observation is
important in art so I understand where the narrator is coming from.
The Weschler article was interesting
in how it described how the artist became enamored by the absence of anything
in deserts, and more generally, nature, but never became obsessed with the
actual science of nature and didn’t really like nature that much at all, never
camping or leaving society for too long. What I didn’t like was the first
picture was incredible creepy and how it seemed like he was trying to make a
distinction that was not there, or at least not apparent to me.
The Sauders article was by far the
most interesting, I find a strong narrative always is good to hook me and keep
me attentively reading, and the airplane story was a good way to start. The
near death experience rings true to me, with the one word “no” thought running
through his head, because I got into a car accident and all I could think was “fuck”
the whole time. I like how the main topic is death and how it affects your view
on the world and art. The only negative is how expansive it was, the article
was very long and almost a biography on the man, which I think could’ve been
shortened.
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