Friday, August 26, 2011

Day Nine of Vacation 2011: Mirrors

August 8 continued
I continued to look around the surrealism exhibit, and Dad showed Ginny and I a "hall of mirrors."  It was very disorienting -- you really couldn't tell which way was real and which way was just mirror.  Mom thinks it was a metaphor for depression: it makes the person going through it understand how it's possible to feel trapped and uncertain, like there's no way out.  I liked this part of the exhibit more, probably because, even though it was strange, I could understand it.  I believe that good art can tell us something about ourselves or the world, and this exhibit did both.

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