Performing maintenance art around the USU felt a bit strange because it isn’t common for I to clean a sculpture outside in public.
The difference of the cleaning the stairways of an art museum and flinging molten lead is that the visuals appear to contradict each other in your head. One can visualize someone cleaning an area for sanitation or the appearance of it, and on the contrary, they can visualize someone making a mess and possibly be acting reckless or “dirty” in the process of flinging molten lead
Cleaning can be considered as an act of art. Performing any act that you have an optimal goal to achieve, is art. Putting the effort to do something mad or excited, will show the outcome of what you’re feeling. It will most definitely affect the way you act throughout the activity, whether it be painting or washing the dishes, there is an end goal to achieve and in between the start and end your emotions will affect the outcome and what you just completed can be considered as art.
Women’s work will always be art. The term “mens work is art” is not quite often used. Because most “work” can be considered as male dominant, we expect it to be just normal “work” such as, working in an office, construction and possibly working for the government to some extent. Women’s work can be quite unique as to what they are capable of doing such as giving birth. Since it is no common to see a women work in a male dominated field, their kind of work shows the determination of what a woman may have.
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