today i was a camera

today i went to the katzen art center for a photo exhibit.

it was called "one hour photo"

there is 128 photographs in this exhibit but they are only showed

for a total of 60 minutes, ever.

when the clock changes to the next hour, the photo disappears forever.

i really like this idea, of a photo only being alive for an hour.

it really makes a person look at the photograph,

and take in the beauty before it's wiped away, like it never even existed.

sometimes i think we take art for granted,

there is photographs we see all the time, and the first time we saw it,

we thought it was beautiful, but each time we see it and stare at it,

it looses its meaning and beauty because it becomes another common thing.

we saw mr. georges photograph at 2pm on a wednesday afternoon,

we saw people walk by that didn't even pay attention to the image projected on the wall.

"soft serve vs. hot air" will only be remembered the few memories that saw it,

it kind of turned us as students, into a camera.