The toothbrush is the new paintbrush...

What a different piece.  Just as quickly and abruptly as it started, Kaprow's article ended, leaving me questioning his morning routine.

I identified mostly with his argument that most of the habits in our daily lives are so mundane and planned that we don't realize the true act of performing them.  He characterized this with brushing his teeth.  He picked probably one of the best actions to show how little we pay attention to our daily habits.  I know I'm not thinking about my brushing patterns when I brush my teeth in the morning, in fact I don't think I think about anything as I am definitely not a morning person.

I did disagree with Kaprow on some levels.  It's great that he wants to pay more attention to his actions and understand their every ebb and flow, yet I don't think that qualifies them as art.  Instead he is really just focusing on every little action his body performs, which is well and good but nothing of interest to anyone else because we all do it!  If I wanted to write a book on breathing I'm almost positive it wouldn't be on the best seller list simply because who cares, we all do it, why would you want to read about it?