Course blog for Art 105.01 - Intro to Visual Thinking, Spring 2009. Patrick Kelley

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Your Nuts

The idea of becoming attached to a peanut sounds absurd, but after drawing the peanut several times, developing a life story for it, giving the peanut a personality, name, etc, one may start to value such a small and once-insignificant object. By personifying an object, we as humans start to associate the insignificant object with distinguishable characteristics and eventually humanistic traits. Once we sense that a peanut has humanistic traits, all hopes for sanity are lost; would you eat Frank, the last standing WWII peanut veteran? ...Well still maybe, but it makes it harder for you to eat the peanut; in some cases you would replace your peanut for another peanut to eat. In any case, the idea behind becoming closer with an object by giving the object humanistic traits is pretty unique and this experiment surely hit the spot showing us that even we students can be crazy (in the good sense).

1 comment:

  1. good point, that this 'craziness' is actually quite human!

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