'Putting the Cans Back' by Alexander J. Ose/Internet.com blogosphereosis

Transience. Revelry. Reversal. Alexander J. Ose's groundbreaking art event entitled 'Putting the Cans Back' touches on the everyday becoming the unusual. Captured in two photographs and two memories, the duality of perception is brought into startling contrast. The artist and the documentarian, the sole witnesses to a private event, here broadcast over the very public network of thoughts and ideas known as the internet two photos taken, quickly, during and after the performance.

Dressed in a suit jacket, recalling the white collar bureaucracy of the conglomerate corporations like Miller™, Ose first removed six (6) "tallboy" cans of 16 fl. 0z. each from their plastic six pack rings. Upon consuming the beverages, the artist then proceeded to place the cans back into the plastic rings from whence they had come.

When asked to comment on the monumental occasion that had just taken place, Ose stated, "I just think that's where our society's heading."

Where our society's heading indeed. This sentiment can be seen echoing in all of the channels of life throughout the United States and even spilling into the rest of the world. We take out but we do not put back in. The receptacles of our societal alcoholism are tossed away like so many bitten off fingernails: littering our lives with refuse and remorse and a hangnail of regret.

And he didn't even clip the rings afterward.

All those dead seagulls.

It sickens me.

This message is meant to sicken.

To destroy.

To hurt.

What have we become.

Ose's performance has struck a threatening chord in the mind of the art world. Where does it go from here?

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