I'll just start off by saying it took me three re-reads to even figure out what Kaprow was saying.. and I'm still not entirely sure I have it right. I understand the perspective he makes in regards to trying to distinguish what is art, what is life, and how one goes about deciding what goes in which category and those that are both. His narrative about how Duchamp ironically placed a physical limit on art, the mode of self expression and personal opinion, supports his following paragraph about how the watching of his elbow in the mirror counts as a form of art. As Kaprow continues, I found his thoughts on our attempts at differentiating ourselves and how we all appear dissimilar despite our similarities. This is shown when he proclaims "An unremarkable picture of myself was beginning to surface, an image I'd created but never examined".
I'm not sure if it's due to the lack of a creative side that has been suppressed by 4 years of business schooling and exceptionally black and white technical training in regards to engines, but I found this article to be the hardest one to effectively comprehend so far this quarter.
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