Blog 7

Kaprow:
I never thought of brushing my teeth, or walking to class as art.  This is simply the things I must do everyday. However, I agree with the artist that it can be art if we truly pay attention to it.  All the tiny details of our everyday actions turn out to become something beautiful.  Even typing this blog post.  I see how my fingers know which keys to press without even looking at the keyboard.  If I watch my fingers closely though, it becomes a work of art to see them flowing across the keyboard to form words on the screen.
I disagree with the artist in the sense that these actions are always art.  I believe it is only considered art work if you recognize and acknowledge it as such.  I do not consider my walk to class each day as art.  However, when I look at how my legs move back and forth, how I hold my book bag, how I know where to go without even thinking about it.  Once I recognize all of this, then I consider it art.

Weschler:
As a Catholic, I think the timing of this article is perfect since it coincides with our tradition of Lent.  Lent is about how Jesus spent 40 days in the desert to figure out how to be the Son of God.  I feel like the artist had a similar experience where he went out to the desert to find out how to improve his art.  Both came back with a completely different perspective on how to do their missions.  The whole point of the desert is to built a perspective and one's personal perception of the world.  Once this perception is developed, then one can apply it to what they do.
The artist took time to think of ways to show this desert and sense of perception in his artwork.  I believe this is something you cannot and should not pursue since as the author stated, each person will develop a different perception.  It seems that the artist learned the correct lesson that one should do their work with their perception and thoughts, while understanding others perceptions and thoughts will be different.

Saunders:
This article contains so much information on such an incredible guy.  I appreciate Saunders views on death and how we should not ignore the idea, but truly face the idea and how it can make us better.  They talk about how we have a heightened sense of what life is truly after experiencing a near death experience of the loss of a loved one.  This is a feeling which I think almost all of us can agree on and which happens to us at times in our lives.  I never recognized it before, but the author is right that these feelings tend to die out once time goes on.
On a different topic, Saunders talks about how it is a slim chance that what a student will write will someday reach the "real" world of audience.  I agree in the sense it is very unlikely, but at the Undergraduate level, I fell like students do not write towards a worldwide audience.  The current system wants us to write for the purpose of a good grade.  It is not until one goes to graduate school (which many of us choose not to) when the writings are meant to be for a broader audience.