Like a Shark

The MoMA has several different types of art that make similar statements, but the one that spoke to me personally was Margaret Lee's piece. As I walk into the room where the work is displayed, the first thing I notice is the warmth, limited space and the cucumber wall phone. A roter is connected to a cucumber rather than a phone. This took a minute to process and when I turned to the rest of the room, I noticed and eggplant phone on a table. Upon hearing my peers talk about the meaning of the strange household appliances, I saw that their perspective differed from my own. They said that it was a connection between technology and nature; that everything is ultimately one. I saw uselessness. The most important use of a phone is for it to make calls; that is it's only job. This, I think, spoke to the fact that old technologies have been abandoned for better, slicker models. Cell phones can access the internet, send text messages and have an important place in our everyday lives. Landline phones might as well be connected to cucumbers because they have outstayed their welcome in the twenty first century. My stance on the industrialization of our civilization is that we need to abandon things that hold us back and move forward. Never look back.