This was an extremely successful trip. Everything at MoMA was really great, especially the woman photographers. And La Caga Aux Folles was ridiculously good and entertaining. Still, the highlight of the trip had to be getting to observe the reactions after we chased Dan Lane down the street trying to get his autograph and a picture.
There were foreign people taking pictures, the guy who followed us, the guys who stopped Elisa and Viviana to ask who he was, the lady who stopped dead in her tracks just to stare at us. I think what was so exciting about it was getting people in such a fast moving city to pay attention to you. Usually, when walking around New York, you try not to make eye contact with people, you look away from funny looking or funny dressed people, and you ignore anyone doing weird things. It's nearly impossible to get anyone's attention. So when you do, it's really cool! You can turn a face you see onto a street into a personality by getting them to talk to you or react to you. We see a million faces every day and hardly remember any. One of the most powerful motivations (if not the most powerful) for doing art is the reaction from others. It's also empowering to trick people! Knowing that you know something that they don't automatically puts you above them on the hierarchy we subconsciously create.