William Pope L., Eating the Wall Street Journal
I thought this piece was extremely grotesque; it captures the race/class division problems that exist in New York, and America. The “simulated” vomit on the newspapers on the floor was almost as bad as if the real vomit was there. For a moment, I felt the rage that Pope L. must have felt– after all, he must have been really passionate about these problems if he was willing to eating newspapers and regurgitate them as part of a performance. I noticed the toilet as the throne for his performance.
After looking at this piece again, I noticed the fishing pole that was apparently used to pull the stacks of newspapers up to his throne. This piece is full of irony, as Pope L. uses common objects to fight against upper class corruption. (Other objects used are ketchup, milk, the toilet).
