Art Experience

My art experience came in the form of visiting the country fair. If you don’t know what the country fair is, it is a gathering of hippies of all kinds sharing art and experiencing life with one another. For me the actual experience of visiting the country fair was very different then what I expected. I thought it would be a Saturday market on a larger scale, but it turned out to be a nuclear bomb on my mind. When I first arrived at the country fair I couldn’t believe how many people where actually there. There was a huge field covered with cars, and the people organizing this parking lot were extremely inefficient. After a fifteen minute walk my friends and I reached the front gate. There were sculptures make out of garbage all over the place; a piece sign made out a broken bikes and vans painted with a every kind of hippie mural you can think of. The fair had multiple stages with people reading poetry, performing music, and interpretive dancing. The dancing was the most entertaining part because at least ninety percent of the dancers where on acid, shrooms, or some other psychedelic drug. There were booths set up throughout the fair, and most of them were selling jewelry, paintings, pictures, glass sculptures, and wood carvings. The paintings and pictures were very beautiful and most of them were of nature. The different combinations of colors were mesmerizing and the artist would come up and talk to you about were their inspiration came from and what they were trying to depict with this picture or painting. I have never experienced the hippie culture in that way, and it wouldn’t have been so unbearable if they would just put on some deodorant. But all in all it was an experience that changed my view of the hippie culture, and what they value is so much different from my own values.