| How to think outside the box? A few months before | | | | a bit of outrageous thinking to create provocative art? |
| Salvador Dali died I was at a gallery in San Francisco, | | | | To a certain extent I think so... yup, I do! I guess I have |
| who featured him. They had a video playing continually | | | | to say, "Viva la twist", sometimes, because what |
| of him, rolling paper up in a ball and eating it. True. I was | | | | came forth from his artistic soul, gave us visuals that |
| for whatever reason intrigued by that. Questions in my | | | | are not only memorable, but quite thought provoking. |
| mind mounted about him. It seemed desperate as far | | | | An artist's goal is always to create a new avenue of |
| as art expression goes to find value in eating rolled up | | | | thought which Dali did indeed accomplish. |
| paper wads. Was he going mad or had he always | | | | Not to worry, I am not going to suggest as a |
| been mad or was I somehow being short sighted and | | | | prerequisite to understanding art we must all start |
| missing some extraordinary expression of artistic | | | | eating paper. But, I do think by that crazy gesture of |
| courage? Was I 'not hip', not in the inner circle of | | | | Dali's, that outside of the box thinking, might just be |
| knowing what makes real art? I did not know much | | | | whatever comes to mind at the time. I may be over |
| about Dali then and I confess I thought it odd and | | | | thinking it all, and yet it is fun to think about doing |
| actually kinda coo coo? | | | | something outrageous, to perform nonsense that feels |
| Salvador Dali died a short time later and I could only | | | | fun. Maybe go to a restaurant in a wild (to you) outfit |
| think of him eating paper with that crazy mustache of | | | | and pretending to be someone completely different |
| his. | | | | from who you or I are. I would not think that paper |
| Since then I have acquired several books about him to | | | | would digest all that well (lol), so stay away from being |
| add to my art library. He was sure a strange and dare | | | | that far over the top, OK? Think outrage though, think |
| I say, twisted in many ways, guy. I have to ask myself | | | | farther and let the stars in. |
| what it takes to stand out in the art world. Does it take | | | | |