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I finally got the chance to go up and see “The Gates” yesterday. Actually, I had the chance to do it last weekend too because nothing was technically holding me back, but a friend wanted to go so we went together. It was pretty cool, they look very nice in the park. We didn’t go too far into the park, but I took my share of photos so that I could prove that I actually went to see them. Then I took this photo because I thought the rock looked kind of funny.
Special thanks to my friend Mark who got up to Central Park this morning before I even had a chance to wake up. I haven’t actually had a chance to go up to see this yet, but I saw the gates without the curtain things when I went to see a movie on Wednesday night at the Walter Reade Theatre. I was going to take a photo that night, but this one turned out better than that one would have.
Usually I have absolutely no interest in installation art such as this which uses scale as part of its draw, but the fact that it’s in Central Park kind of makes it different. Previous things similar I’ve seen were “The Golden Kilometer” which is this huge room with one thousand gold colored bars which are each a meter long. They’re arranged on the floor of this room, and I remember something about the distance between each row of bars to be one millimeter further apart than the previous set. There was this other one called “The Earth Room” which is a large room full of dirt…but it’s nicely moistened dirt. It’d be more fun if they let you jump in and stomp all over it. The dirt there is nearly two feet deep.
This art installation is aesthetically pleasing and I don’t have to go to a snooty gallery monitored all day by some poor hapless sap who gets to explain the art to when a visitor comes every two hours or so.
I understand why people feel the need to visit Ground Zero. Obviously living here it doesn’t need to feel any more real to me since both I was there when it happened and I’ve already been down there for other reasons. When I hear people saying they’re going to go visit Ground Zero I just picture them going down there and realizing there’s really nothing to see, because if you didn’t have the connect of what it looked like before then you really might as well have visited an empty lot.
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