Modern Art

Gadol Hadorah, you’re the typical example of a scoffer of some of the most powerful, influential and brilliant works of art by calling preschool projects. Why is it so hard to recognize the profound impact its underlying messages and meanings have on society? Take for example the famous banana duck taped to a wall which rightly sold for an enormous sum of money. All I could hear at the time was scorn and ridicule at this magnificent work. Why don’t we just understand the power and wisdom of its important message? That particular piece clearly reflects on courage and hope in hard and difficult situations. A banana represents the difficult struggle of having something beautiful (like a banana) but cannot last forever and as it ages will develop brown spots on its skin and eventually rot. A wall is something solid strong and lasting representing a lasting effect on the world your actions can have. By binding together your life (the banana) which does not last with good deeds that have a world wide impact (the wall) a temporary life receives meaning. Using duck tape to bind them together represents a binding between life and impactful action that is not weak like scotch tape but not too strong like cement. This teaches us while we must hustle to act and tie ourselves to action in a strong way like duck tape, we cannot hustle too hard or fast (like cement) because then nothing will get done. “Haste makes waste”. This is just one interpretation of many including happiness, kindness, knowledge, positivity, peace, and many others.

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