In the first semester, my blog entries were all about thinking: observing, analyzing, questioning. I explored the blurred lines of what art is or could be. Everyday installations. The role of context. Insiders vs. outsiders. The idea that art may not be about objects at all, but about perception, intention and attention.
But theory can only take you so far.
This semester, things are different. Now we’re asked to do something. To test our ideas. To fail. To get our hands dirty, literally, if necessary. These next blog entries are part of that next step.
You could say I took the idea of “experimentation” quite literally.
I went outside. I placed things. I waited. I watched.
I used a very ordinary object, a stalk of celery, and treated it as a kind of artistic tool. The goal? To observe how people respond to something utterly mundane placed in the “wrong” context or perhaps the right one, depending on how you look at it haha.
What happened wasn’t loud or dramatic. No one cried, no one clapped, no one wrote a headline. These upcoming blogposts focus on one iteration of this experiment. They describe what I did, where I did it, and how people responded (or didn’t). They also explore what these reactions might say about perception, intention, authorship, and public space.
Can context alone make something art?
Does intention matter if no one knows it?
Does silence count as feedback?
Can something become art by being thrown away?
This is the thread I’m following. And I invite you to follow along.
So here we go: celery, confusion, and the quiet comedy of public experimentation.
I hope you enjoy the journey as much as I did. Have fun reading
