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The Art Attack

            I really love modern art and I enjoy going to art galleries and looking at art that was made in my own lifetime especially and, even more so, in the last decade.  But, after spending about 3 -4 hours in an art gallery, I start to feel a little overwhelmed because there  is just a lot of emotions and processing for me around art and that's when I usually clutch my chest and tell my partner, "I think I'm having an Art Attack!"  

An Art Attack is a little less serious than a heart attack but it's just as visceral in terms of the way your heart rate speeds up, you start sweating, and feeling that panic that comes from taking in too much of the world all at once.  

Anyway, in Rome it was proper hot and we needed air conditioning so visiting The Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporane (also known as La Galleria Nazionale) was a welcome adjustment to body temperature and, as I said before on a different photo, I really enjoyed their Time is Out of Joint exhibit.  But, I happened to notice this woman in the distance who was having an Art Attack.  

After about twenty minutes of her head in her hands, she recovered enough to keep going but I think we should all learn to take symptoms of an Art Attack more seriously.  Don't avoid going to art galleries because of this possibility but perhaps pace yourself!  Art holds ideas and emotions and purpose.  One's heart can only take so much!

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Taken on: July 9, 2023

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