Epic Magazine: Pilsen »

I drove to Chicago to see my friend’s play. The theater was in Pilsen, I got there about… three hours(?) before the house opened. I grabbed some Pad See Eiw, because if you throw a stick in Chicago you’re likely to hit a thai restaurant, but where I live now there’s only one within 60…

I go to school an hour (or so) west of Chicago and I always wonder about those things. I know its morbid but we had a shooting at our school that killed 5 and injured dozens and the memorial for them is sooo bland and the sculpture that was commissioned i find hideous because it looks like an exaggerated hunting knife. When I see things like the “elmo” I always wonder if it is an age thing or a personal preference and i feel as though the singular memorials that are shoddy but person specific are considerably more moving than something that is sterile and erected for a group. My issue is why is a group one that is bland considered “art” where as something erected by someone close to the person not. It bugs me and its one of the many reasons I get into arguments with my art teachers because art is an idiotically subjective term.

rant done