It was challenging to work with the larger scale and so many different elements in the image, but I learned a lot in the process. I also like the balance of 3 people with hats/3 goats/3 people with hats.
Regarding Benjamin's essay, I can't consider his ideas without also considering the year, 1936, in which he was writing. How would he react to the constant march of technology from mimeographs to typewriters to Xerox machines? And what about the giant museum, critique, marketplace, and canvas that the Internet has created? Modern art strives to recapture Benjamin's sense of aura and originality by probing further and further beyond the countless ideas that have already been expressed. How long can artists chase this sense of authenticity, if that is indeed what they are doing? We are surrounded by so many reproductions of art and design that Benjamin wouldn't even know what to attack first. I prefer to accept this modern turn of events and look for the moments when reproduction becomes original again through reinterpretation, addition, or glimpses of personal style.
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