Gabriel Orozco- First post

Over the past two weeks of school I think that the most interesting person was Gabriel Orozco. I thought it was really interesting how he could take the most simple thing like a spill on the ground and thing of it as art. It was also interesting how he was talented at so many different things like taking pictures and architecture and pottery. While he was making pottery in the video he felt a connection to his ancestors and to the piece itself. He explains that how he feels about all of his work. He quotes, "to be intimate you have to open yourself" which I took that in order to feel a connection to art you need to be able to tap into your emotions and look at things in a different light. An example of looking at something differently is while he's at the grocery he saw it as a perfect place because of the order. Then to mess up the "perfection" he took a bunch of stuff and put it where it didn't belong. I found this particularly fascinating because it is such an everyday place that we go to every day and just see it as a store with food. But he goes in and sees it in a total different way.