Penicillin and the Pull-out Method: I hope you don't mind, but I doodled my thoughts in the comments section in the survey. You know. For variety.

Why do you study art? So that I can look at books with pictures all day. -2004

Theatre

With the advance of the world wide web we have the ability to look at pictures on the Internet all day if we like. Thank you Facebook. Thank you Youtube. Thank you Tumblr. Thank you Twitter.

And yet, as quickly as our eyes graze over the images, pictures, gifs, memes, jpegs, whatever, we tend to forget them. Our brains have adapted to this onslaught of imagery to filter out that which is useful, memorable and in some way meaningful to the voyeur. And boy oh boy, there is a lot of crap out there. It reminds me of fast food..it's like our visual diet consists of crappy food that we force down our visual cortex which in turn informs our understanding of the world. I don't know about you, but I find this to be a frightening thing. So when in the abundance of quantity, you come across some quality, it's worth pausing to take note of the situation.

Let me introduce you to the Polish artist Pawla Kuczynskiego or as he is known in English circles, Paul Kuczynski. Born in 1976 in Szcsecin, there is very little else I could find out about the man (who is mistaken by Youtube to be a woman?), except that he studied Art in Poznan. His name comes up repeatedly under "political satire artist" and although the juxtaposing of different elements of cultural perceptions in his body of work, comments on societal stigmas in a satirical way, it is the simple humor often found in the pieces that really endear them to the viewer. Much can be said about his work, and some may like it, others don't. But as an artist of any kind, musically, visually, poetically, it is our responsibility to report on the world in the time that we are alive and Kuczynskiego has his finger on the pulse on that one. I think I'll quote Anaiis Nin on this when she said, simply that..

.."We see the world as we see ourselves."

Word.