The Artist Is Present.

I'd like to think I have a more than average appreciation for art

and I can see the gigantic-red-dot-on-white-paper-

that-any-five-year-old-could-have-made as art, simply because

art is expression and I can more than appreciate that

and while someone may stand there and declare

that they could have created it - 

the fact of the matter is they didn't. They didn't think to.

I love to stand amazed at something I either didn't think to do

or don't have the ability to do, because it not only inspires 

but it stirs creativity inside me. I can feel it expanding my mind

and I love that. 

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Meet Marina Abramović...

On Sunday, we went to the MoMA in NYC and saw Marina's exhibit,

The Artist Is Present. Below you can see her and the line of people

sitting around her waiting for a chance to sit across from her and

engage in this silent staring contest that she succumbs to all day

every day without food or bathroom break.

The rest of the exhibit consists reenactments 

of her past 'installations' with live performers.

One of which involves you walking in between

a naked man and woman who face each other just inches apart.

Other videos throughout the exhibit show her brushing her hair

until her scalp bleeds and numerous other installations that 

border on torturous and simply crazy (my opinion obviously). 

It was apparent that a lot of people idolized her. 

It was one of the most effective exhibits I have ever seen-

It left me contemplating art, the human body, pain,

the power of the mind, right and wrong, beauty and insanity.

(and yes, I walked through the two naked people)