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=My Post=

I can only assume that Seth Prince's "Dispersion" was in and of itself a piece of conceptual art. I was sure this was some sort of experiment in which Prince combined strings of seemingly unrelated words in an attempt to see if he could coerce other people into thinking it was insightful.

But this is no place for judgment, rather for discussion and interpretation. Thus, I arrived at "Free" with an open mind.

Soon after entering the exhibition floor, I stood in front of a large green screen trying to place it's meaning and develop deeper appreciation of Seth Prince. I realized that, like the exhibit, a good piece of writing should be remembered for it's whole, not it's particular elements on their own.

So, I started to imagine the words of an essay as a giant green screen. I realized, these words serve to convey a bigger picture; they are not the end game. Thus, even though the words cannot be removed from the page, our brain works as an engine to understand the whole of the material being conveyed.

Similarly, a green screen is never truly removed, but rather eliminated by the process of a digital computing engine.

Even in the most academic of writing, while seeing past the green screen might be difficult, it becomes easier with each read.

Seth Prince should take an cue from the "Free" exhibit and let us see beyond his words. It seems as if the order and length of words is of higher priority to Prince than their meaning. Which is strange considering his work was featured in an show highlighting how "both the quantity and kind of information" has changed our cultural landscape.

In keeping with the theme of this week, I tried to express my feelings through interpretive dance, but I didn't really get the main bullet points across. So instead, I appropriated the work in the exhibit into a piece of Video Mud Installation Sculpture Photography that can be seen at the bottom of this post.

=My Video Mud Installation Sculpture Photography=

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