Reflection 1

Excerpt: "Criticism (an activity video is admirably suited to) based on private or socially unpersuasive myths is not empowered to activate anything but itself."

I think this is very true in every aspect in our lives. Even though we have Chinese and English dominating a large portion of world population, each of us speaks a different "language". For example, the word "rose" might remind person A a romantic eventing with her boyfriend because he gave her a rose that night. However, "rose" might agonize person B because his grandma died of rose－hypersensitivity. Same language creates different reflections to different people. Thus, arts "are always not empowered to activate anything excepting themselves."


Personally, I believe that not only does motion creates the sense of reality, but also the detailedness forbidding us from doubting the videos. Since arts like sculptures are created intentionally, artists have already known exactly what they want to express and what they should do to convey such feeling. On the other hand, videos record every detail in the world without compromising anything reasonable. Thus, people tend to question less about the videos than other forms of arts.

I like this piece of art because it conveys feeling intuitively. Hardly have we seen a clock like those. We use our intuition to relate those clocks in the picture to water or other liquid, or silk - anything that is flexible and elusive. We might intuitively convince ourselves that the clock hanging on the branch will slide down in one second. I think this is a true art because it conveys information and feeling intuitively and effectively.