Just for fun, as a break from all the politics:
A sculptor friend of mine, Julia Levesque, has created an interactive art installation about identity. In it, she asks viewers to share the type of fork, knife, spoon, or other piece of silverware that best represents them. Her Web site explains:
Our terminology for self-description is so fraught with layers of self-consciousness that most people refuse to define themselves for fear of being judged.
Using silverware as the core of a light-hearted, alternate language of self-definition, Ms. Levesque . . . has created this work to connect as many people as possible using a new language that allows for a pure sense of self expression without the pitfalls of the language we commonly use.
She asks that people send her their responses via text, e-mail, or by posting on the blog she has created. All responses will also be printed out and taped to wall where the physical exhibit is located, the Reynolds Center of Babson College, in
Wellesley, MA. The exhibit will be on display there through December 15.
Hope some of you have fun with this. Me? I am a chef’s knife. Multipurpose but with an edge. (Although I almost chose “spork,” just because it’s fun to say.)