In Kurt Vonnegut's "Bluebeard" the hero is a major figure in the abstract impressionist art movement, whose passion has always been incredibly precise, realistic drawings. The mural of everything is reminiscent of the final scene of the book, although perhaps stranger and less emotionally potent.

But the book doesn't actually show the drawings, does it? Vonnegut just describes them? How does he communicate their scale and intricacy? (I guess I could just go check out "Bluebeard"...)

My first reaction to this was something sort of a snarky snigger. Of course, it isn't really a picture of everything. I think it could more aptly have been called a picture of nothing. Then again, it is a picture of something -- a glimpse -no, a stare - at the insanity and meaningless of pop culture. What better way to demonstrate it's complete ubiquity than putting it all in one's field of view simultaneously. This is where I think the interesting part of the work lies, (it's not particularly artful) is the surpising frequency of neuronal firing indicating recognition. It is truly amazing how much crap we have stored in our brain just by living in mono-pop cultural society.

In the end, I think it's just kinda fun/funny.