Frozen People - Art for Everyone (Even You)

The hard truth about art, even really, really good art, is that it is fleeting. It takes incredible work to get any project from concept to completion, and the first thing that happens (if it gets seen at all) is the critics rip it down. The second thing is that it then is forgotten.

Certainly, great art transcends, but I'm no great artist.* So, for us regular mooks, making really, really good art instead is probably the center of the target. But, sometimes, if you keep at it long enough, the art gets you instead...it transcends...it becomes great on its own.

I think Improv Everywhere unleashed great art at Grand Central Station recently. For five minutes, 200+ regular citizens froze in place, to the shock of onlookers everywhere. It achieved beauty, the ethereal, tension and ecstasy.

I wish I could have been there, and I can only hope that this fleeting five minutes of art becomes legend. I hope art text books 200 years from know refer to the "frozen people of '08" in their chapters on early 21st art.



Truly, to God be the glory. I can only imagine that this work delighted Him.

*Yet.