weekly art show...

This week, I treated the viewing of the various Personal Space Projects as my weekly art show. It was quite a strange transition from being the performer (or artist) to being the viewer in a matter of a couple days. Whereas when I was performing my piece, along with Danger Dane, When people would give us strange reactions, it would seem super lame to us...it made me think that they were pretty stupid for not being able to make the connection that  we might just be doing a project, rather that standing around, "forgetting to take our meds" or something. When seeing the works of other students from other sections as I went about my daily business, however, I found myself jumping to similar initial reactions that my own viewers must have jumped to. Rather than immediately placing the bizarre girls sleeping in blankets on the side of the bike-path in the "artistic" category, my mind would quickly skip the rationalization, and move straight to the confusion, and misunderstanding. Not that I could see my own face, but I could have sworn I made the same strange facial expressions while passing the other art students as I received while doing my project. After passing a couple projects, I made the connection shortly after, and made an effort to backtrack and take a closer look, as to not just be another uninterested passer-by. This change in positions, from "artist" to viewer, wade this project quite interesting.