Response to Kaprow, Weschler,and Saunders

Kaprow, 'Blurring of art and life'

Even though in most of people’s view, the artworks are those stuffs that should only be put in library or museum, the author questioning this statement by providing the example of blushing tooth, an art because of the movement of elbow. According to the author, people always ignore the art in our daily lives. In fact, we could not only simply separate art from life because art occurs everywhere at any time. Everything in our lives can be considered as an art.

This kind of statement reminds me my life and begins to rethink which part of my life can be considered as an art. Then I come to realize the answer is everything. The photo of the people who are waiting for the bus is an art; the birds on the tree can be an art; the rotational movement of wheel of bus is an art… Art is just around us.

Weschler, 'The Desert'

In the text, Weschler described a man who sold a studio to a person and then left without thinking of any consequence to the Southwest desert. During the desert trip, he started to think about his life and his decision about selling the studio. He connected his art life to the experience on the desert. At the beginning, he found surroundings were really out of his expectations, and then he marked every event that he thought was meaningful. After several tryings, he finally figured out that the mark thing was meaningless and so does his life that try hard to get an identity to make others approve your ability. The important things is 'Whereas all that really mattered in such a situation was the place's presence'. Although ended with nothing, he really learned a lesson of his life.

Lovell, Saunders articles

Joel met Saunders in a Japanese restaurant. Saunders talked to Joel about his interesting story that a plane was occurred with a little accident when he was 10. This event really changed his point of view towards his life.Then Saunders wanted to be a person that makes everyone knows the importance that everything is like a treasure as he almost died during the accident. He even wrote several books, talked about his perspectives in the book; he is the really 'writer's writer'. I suppose that this writer made a good point that everyone deserves a unforgettable experience that makes him cherish his life. As those who always thinks about taking drugs or alcohol all day in the newspaper, we should take it seriously.