Sometimes Red, Sometimes Blue
Ok, this one’s a little tough to classify, and many would argue it is not art at all.
What is art anyway? Is it enough if it is something stranger than the norm? Well decide for yourself after taking a look at Damon Zucconi’s sometimesredsometimesblue. (You may need to hit refresh a few times.) Clearly no one can accuse this artist of false advertising; the site is indeed sometimes red and sometimes blue. Zucconi has a number of such visual projects that challenge the viewer and are open to interpretation.
I’ll take a stab and say the display has something to do with the political tensions currently dividing the US into “red” and “blue” states, and the somewhat random chance that seems to put many Americans in one camp or the other. This is manifested in the generally geographic nature of the color spread across the map. No one chooses to be born into say, a conservative Utah family or say, a progressive Southern California family.
But nevertheless, the community and other factors surrounding a child in each of these families will have a large impact on his political leanings. There is even some evidence that political affiliation is partially determined by genetics. But all this only strengthens the importance of the individual overcoming indoctrination and thinking clearly and rationally….
Whew! I guess this simple site got me talking, so it did work….!
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