11-24 Blog Entry

This entry is written on The artist Alan Bigelow's work When I was President, a Portrait of Absolute Power. This piece is an animated work on the Turbulence website. The beginning screen shows the words When I Was President with President in clickable bubbles. Each letter of the word brings you to a different animation with text showing at different times to tell you all the good things the narrator had done while he was president. All of these things are similar to the ideals that people have for changes. However these changes are done with an ironic outcome. For example one of the animations says something along the lines of "I Started a Universal Health Care Program, All Pets Were Treated First."Other topics dealt with are the cluttering of the internet, world peace, and more. At the end of this presentation the narrator ends with the story of a suicide bomber killing him for the fact that her actions were the only way to make the world right again. This work is great for showing the basic "Be careful what you wish for" cliche. The artist shows us that if someone has to much power he could be doing good with it but some things end up bad. This work also shows us that the human race will never be fully satisfied with change. Many take a long time to adjust to change and some do not adjust at all.