Mike Kelley

Monica Vazquez

HUA 101

Professor Harmon

December 3, 2013

MoMA PS1: Mike Kelley

     In Mike Kelley’s art we see a variety of pieces that are out of the ordinary, some are very confusing and some disturbing. The piece that I chose is simple yet I found it very interesting. When you view the actually glass bottle it is big and dark. Inside we view what is depicted as a small city or town that is made of wax or something resembling this.

On the side the same glass bottle is being viewed from a frame, except when you move part of the image disappears. If you’re standing in the middle you can see the complete image but if you move away on either side a part of the image disappears. When Mike Kelley constructed this piece, maybe he was representing a point of view from his life. As vulnerable humans sometimes we choose to see certain things and ignore what hurts us or what we don’t want to see as real. When I saw this I thought about the times we constantly live in a state of mind where we only see what we want and pretend that the rest isn’t really there. We try to hide it, and if we do it long enough eventually we begin to believe it is really gone.