I Want It All!

So next week I am going to Kansas for thanksgiving break.  I am excited to see by brother and his wife and children, and I am really really really excited to see my boyfriend! It is a great coincidence that his family lives in Kansas City as well.  I think that this trip will be a good opportunity to do something with my final project. I have often joked around with my family (usually at the expense of my brother's wife who was born in Topeka and has lived in Kansas her whole life) about Kansas' lack of beautiful natural things.  We complain that there are no big trees, no valleys, no mountains, and therefore no mountain animals.  I would like to poke fun at this and at the same time offer a gift to Kansas to make up for it a little bit.  So for next week I'm carving mountain animals (most likely bears).  I'm going to bring them to Kansas and leave them in different locations at different public bathrooms so that different people might see them.  I am also considering maybe putting them in people's mailboxes.  I think it's an interesting thing- when you go to a gallery you know that it is a common space and everyone feels equally uncomfortable (or comfortable depending on how you look at it).  But say you put all the gallery paintings in a random person's house and then had everyone come over to their house for the show.  They would feel extremely uncomfortable because it's interfering with their personal space.  It also seems really forceful, intrusive, and direct.  I like that it would be direct and I know for sure that people have to interact with the sculptures in some way.  Maybe they will last a couple minutes until they get thrown away, who knows.  Of course you know that there are many different mountain animals in Kansas that are just as real as my soap carvings (which is not real at all), if you take into account stuffed animals and the like. So I am not giving them anything they do not have in that sense.  But how many people in Kansas, or anywhere for that matter, are going to wake up next week, go check their mail, and find a little bear carving interacting politely with their mail?  I am unable to answer that question as I cannot predict the future.  But I can guarantee that at least a few select people in Olathe, Kansas will!!!  Boo ya.

I'll photograph anything I do.

I like this song a lot.  It makes me feel hopeful for the future, on the edge, and weirdly infinite.

The Flies- Bitter Moon