Patty Chang: Fountain

In this piece, Patty Chang looks at her own reflection in a mirror that has a small amount of water in it. She bends down to suck the water from the mirror, looking as though she is kissing herself. Then she begins to make the loudest, most disgusting sounding slurp I have ever heard. The imagery is clear and calming, but that sound, that sickening sound. I could almost hear my mother’s complaints when I was a child slurping my soup, if the slurping weren’t so loud. The sound made this piece hard to watch. But she was tenacious in her goal of sucking all of the water out of the mirror. I guess that is what is considered to be “pushing the limits”.