Beautiful (:

"There's an art historian who is a Catholic nun. A interviewer asks her what she thinks of the controversial artwork ' Piss Christ ', which involved a crucifix being dunked into the artist's piss. The nun says,I think it's a beautiful piece of art. The interviewer incredulously states, but the crucifix is the symbol of your religion? The nun replies, I think the artwork perfectly conveys society's current degradation of religious belief. The interviewer asks, do you think the artist intended to illustrate this? And the nun answers, what does it matter? This is how I saw the art, the artist's intention has not manipulated my perception of the artwork. Regardless of the artist's intention, I still see it as I do now, and I still see it as a beautiful piece of art.


I think it's incredible, the relationship that we have with that which we read, view, watch, observe. We are experiencing the death of the author, wherein the author has become redundant, for without the reader their words will never be tangible, never exist in another mind. With every book that we read our perception, which is intrinsically manipulated by our own character and experiences, adds to the ideas portrayed by the author. Hence, that book exists between both the author and the reader, both possess a unique relationship with those ideals, with those images and with those words."