3/17/08 McColl Phantasmagoria Show

This show rocked!!!! So much inovation and creation. I enjoyed the old lady shadow with the book, because it challenged the space in the room and the fact that there is enough substance in this shadow to hold up a book. Loved the death notices on the mirrors you had to breathe on to see. The idea that these images on the plates were about death and you had to use your life breathe to view them. The wall of sound was amazing, really curious how this was done, going back tonite may have to ask. Really liked that it was completely interactive i saw fellow students getr eal excited about this piece. Rare that people get this excited about art. It has truely come a long long way from classic painting and alarms in museums that keep you away from the art. This art only works if the viewer is no longer a viewer but an active part of the work. I want a smoking bench at home- this fulfilled one of my recurring fantasies-to dissappear. I will be driving somewhere usually in the country and I'll get this longing to just vanish from my life, to dissappear and go somewhere no one knows me and I can start over. A new life created fresh from the smoke of my vanishing. This seems to be a sort of freedom from myself that I will never know, but the smoking bench got me closer. Thank you smoking bench!