Moon Memory

[image error]Vik Muniz, "Memory Rendering of Man on the Moon," (1990)In class this week we're looking at originals and copies.  Today we listened to songs that my students suggested alongside their cover versions.  One student said that one difference between the two versions was always one's own associations with each.  That is, memories can get in the way of a "pure" experience.

Here, Brazilian artist Vik Muniz interrogates the original and the copy from the opposite direction. What if we made art from w...