Dan's response to Higgins

For me, this article was a paradigm shifter.  It made a lot of sense to me in the first paragraph when this point was brought up: that people are looking to get back to the basics because of the over saturated media of our modern day.  It truly does make sense in that regard because anyone can gonon the internet and view famous works of art from anywhere in the world. Part of what makes "happenings" and other intermediate works of art so special is the immediacy and intimacy of those pieces.  I also began to ponder the point about drugs and how they will only enhance the experience of the artworks, as opposed to inspiring new methods. Personally, I agree. Inspiration comes from within and from a revelation, not psychedelics.

The image I chose is not so much a picture of something, but it represents the event. When I first went to nuit Blanche it was my first true experience go avant garde art and intermediate. At the time, I did not understand or comprehend why artists would even make any of the weirder things I saw. This article brought me back to that event and evoked a feeling of closure. Those pieces of art which confused me were much simpler than I was trying to make them.  I will definitely be keeping an open and clearer mind in the future when dealing with this newer wave of art.