Flutterby™! : Burning MOMA

Sean, Lia, Nancy and I made it to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art today. Lia is an art/architecture/design kind of person and it's one of her favorite places. - Nancy and I have both had our senses of art tweaked by Burning Man, and had a lot of fun there. Yes, we found things we liked... a little true awe at some artists works. But we also saw a lot of stuff that belonged on the Playa, only it would have had to be better constructed to hold up, and it would have to be better art to be noticed above the background noise art at Burning Man. Big differences: At MOMA, just because the art is obviously functional and has a crank handle to make the orbs rotate does not mean you should even consider cranking the handle. In fact, just examining the mechanism closely gets one of the many 'monitors' watching everyone like a hawk to grow a third eye that tracks your every move until you leave their 'security zone'.

At the Burn, or even LEAF, such things are there for you to play with appropriately. At MOMA, you can't even take a picture of the 'nameplate/description' so that you can easily look up the artist you liked when you get home.. because a photo of that white paper printout with the artists name and textual description of the item might be misconstrued as "art". That leaves me posting the great artistic pic of the day as: "Pregnant" Nancy and Lia in San Francisco.