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.