Culture For The Non-Cultured

What do these 3 images have in common? They are images of polarities, or opposites. I’ve always loved pictures of opposites (one of the above is even mine).

There’s the big strong man, looking tenderly at his tiny, helpless infant (that I lifted out of the public domain at Creative Commons.)

There’s the tiny woman next to the larger-than-life Ron Mueck sculpture, In Bed, from the Brooklyn Museum. (If you missed Mueck, I’m sorry. It was fantastic. Go to the Brooklyn Museum now, though. I hear Utagawa exhibit of Japanese prints is really good.)

And then there are the stick figures, which are a reproduction of my own recurring childhood drawings: one with a big, giant head and a little bitty body, and one with a little bitty head and a big, giant body.

So, you ask where’s Aerosmith, that awesome, bad-ass rock band? Well, Steven Tyler, the lead singer: I have him on a YouTube video in a random church singing Amazing Grace for all he’s worth.

(Ah, the polarity of it all.)