Most Museums, I feel, try to separate themselves from the norm so that they can attract different types of people. This is exactly the wrong way to approach the experience. I like to walk into a museum and feel like all my preconceived notions are being disproved; like I'm learning something. The Gallery's name, "Sinister Pop", changes your perception of the art that you see while you are looking at them. One of the more interesting works was a chair made out of flowers on a white pedestal. This, under different circumstances would be a beautiful and innocent piece, but in this particular gallery, the subtext changes drastically.
Upon further thinking of what dark undertones might be hidden in this seemingly sincere flowery chair, I began to think that the chair actually signified human greed. As a race, we are constantly looking for new and improved ways to live our lives, which allows us to spend less time trying to survive so that we can focus on more important things, like having higher levels of thinking. Along the way, though, we are distracted by our need to outdo one another. A chair made of flowers is impractical and ridiculous, but in order to illustrate our superiority over other people, we spend all of our time and energy obsessing over having flowery chairs and iPads so that we can prove that we are successful and happy.
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