i started late with the readings. but even though i have read the reading assignments i am lost. the way that the authors think and portray their thoughts are flabbergasting to me... i don't know how to separate the themes. i do understand what the purpose is though. i think that it is to adjust us to different ways of thought and usage of our clay. i think that the authors wanted to throw their readers into a complicated world, that we may or may not be used to... i think that the reading was to stretch our views and "understanding". the slaughter house pictures usually wouldnt have been "art" to me. i have never taken an art class, i have taken 2 years of ceramics. i threw clay on the wheel. i never had a painting class or drawing- maybe in like the 6th or 7th grade, but when i saw the photos of the slaughter house i thought "yea, that is art..." but i had a hard time understanding the authors purpose for the excrement displays.... i think that i am going to have to open myself to new ways of thinking and doing