MEMOIR
The Greatest Idea in the History of Art
Forget about Michelangelo, Van Gogh, or Warhol. This idea was mine, all mine.
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I didn’t take Professor Blosser’s “Create Art!” course because I loved to paint. I didn’t take his course because I adored museums. And I didn’t take his course because I found him inspirational.
I took his course because I was damn near flunking out of architecture school. I needed a good grade to balance my shitty ones, and I heard that Blosser gave everybody an A. It would be a simple transaction. I needed an A and he would give me one. And an A is justified when you create art — because art is subjective, right?
I Am Not the Flower
Blosser taught the course on the second floor of an old, three-story ramshackle building at the edge of the MIT campus. It had been built during World War II as a temporary building to conduct radiation research and was never meant to survive this long. Now it had an old-fashioned photo lab on the first floor for the photography geeks, and Blosser’s cavernous space on the second. In the attic was a creepy old radiation lab that had been nailed shut for decades. You couldn’t get me up there if you’d handed me a Geiger counter.
