I guess I just don’t get
modern art.
A local woman, who is a Brookline-based
artist, has created a hanging colored net that has been hoisted above the Rose
Kennedy Greenway in Boston. The
three-dimensional hanging sculpture is located right at Purchase Street and
Atlantic Avenue in the Seaport District.
My friend and I drive into the city to check it out, and, while it is
ridiculously cool, it is also ridiculously ridiculous.
Sorry, but I don’t get it.
To be honest, I like it
more than I liked the works at the Institute of Contemporary Art, a place I
visited a year or so ago with the same friend.
I didn’t get the works there, either.
After visiting this giant net, my friend and I joke about how cool it
would be if the net were to fall, ensnaring us underneath. We’d be famous; we’d be in the news, even.
Okay, we’d probably be
dead, suffocated and/or strangled by errant knots and wires and rope. Still, though, that would definitely make the
evening news.
Supposedly this aerial
masterpiece has a whole bunch of LED lights on it. We didn’t see any lights anywhere except the
pedestrian lights at the intersection.
Maybe we missed
something. Maybe we don’t have artistic
eyes. Maybe it looks better at night.
Maybe the emperor has new
clothes.
