For instance, this spiral. It looks sort of cool, but is it art? In case it's illegible, the sign reads "The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths". Is the artist being ironic, talking about mystic truths by way of the neon of strip malls and 711s? Is he serious, with the whole "life is art, art is life" mentality? Does he consider himself an artist? Is he being pretentious? I don't understand, which is why it's probably good that I'm not an art critic.
The lights in this photograph can represent either isolated surges of hope surrounded by the bleak loneliness of existence or the short clarity that is human life as compared to the vast stretches of infinite time that surround each lifespan.
Or maybe I accidentally took a picture while watering my plants at night. You pick.
