this is something that has been bothering me for awhile, and i hope i am not alone...please, someone reassure me that i am not an uncultured swine. unless i AM, in which case please, someone tell me the truth so i can retire from my artistic endeavors and start learning how to be a trucker. i always giggle at conceptual art. it's happened for years, and it happened four hours ago. i just don't see how people can step into a room draped in balloons and electrical tape and nod knowingly. there was one room in which there was a television playing a tape of two boys dancing and singing "ragtime gal" in a manner which suggested some level of inebriation. the boys on the tape were smiling at times, so i thought maybe it was okay that i was visibly fighting to suppress the wild bursts of laughter building up inside. but then i looked around and nobody else was smiling at all...and stony-faced strangers nodding at the ragtime gal performance made me want to laugh all the more. i am not a loud or excitable person, but for some reason i cannot keep my composure in these situations. am i intimidated? am i overwhelmed? am i naive? or is it all just bullshit? i'm thinking i may have some pretty good art right here: leftovers from my infamous gesso phase, during which i painstakingly coated many of my personal belongings with multiple layers of thick white gesso. i am now the proud owner of what emily calls "the avant-garde tool kit," including a smooth white hammer and a tape-measure which is now useless because i painted over the numbers. but it wasn't supposed to be artistic, i was just bored and felt like wasting gesso. anyway, i apologize for the length of this post, but i know there are gobs of people on this list who are far more artistically- minded than i am, and i am hoping someone can either sympathize with me, enlighten me, or advise me to stay the hell away from conceptual art so as to avoid future embarassment. luv luv luv kirsten quote of the evening: "i hate art.' -scott Care2 make the world greener! http://www.care2.com - Get your Free e-mail account that helps save Wildlife! +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+