Topic: Hot People
Bansky is hot. If you haven't seen Bansky's work, go look. I'd like to go to wherever just to see it. If I could meet anyone on this planet I'd pick Banksy. Heck, people may have met Banksy and not even know it. Banksy to me represents a true artist. You don't see someone doing something so fresh and so new consistently. I define art to myself as something that sparks emotion or recognition in the viewer AS the artist intended. Now, depending on who the viewer is, the artist may intend them to preceive/feel different things from the art. And then the art sticks with you forever. You could be doing some mundane task 10 years later and you can think of a piece of art that you saw and smile or just remember with the emotion. Art causes a feeling that you then remember when something else gives you that feeling, or art that teaches you something new about the world or youself. Banksy takes all that to a new, exciting, elating level. Bansky rocks my world. On On, Bansky, and if you are ever in Chicago, Illinois, please please please tag us.
Also I have a special interest in temporary art. Art that is positioned in an area where it is in danger. Art that only exists for a fleeting moment. Example: sand, ice sculputre, soap foam sculpture, chalk or water color painted on a sidewalk. When it rains, it's gone! It's beautiful, and fleeting. Vulnerable. It is the relationship that it creates between emotion, beauty, and the very fabric of our existence that I find so intriguing and valuable. I wish I had more time to seek it out, to study it, but in the mean time, I'll just enjoy it as it comes. Music performance - you had to have been there, an act of a gymnast, same... but these can be recorded. It is when things are not recorded in the traditional sence, and are only preserved in memory without effort when they are most valuable.
Bansky is saving the world, one mind and heart at a time. Infectious, inspiring, but never aspiring because it is already there. Surprizing, fun and clever. Go Bansky, go!
