Hank Harrison - My Laptop

How often do we think of the things that we use as beautiful? People usually dwell on paintings or poetry as being worthy of consideration for beauty but what about the things we use? My laptop for example, I think is absolutely beautiful. It helps me do what I need to do in such a flowing efficient way. Its a Mac, so that means it has a snazzy aluminum body and the software is totally integrated with the hardware. The touchpad is so well thought out that it feels like an extension of my own hand. I feel like I can literally reach into my desktop screen and grab an icon. The screen itself is more than just a collection of pixels we can use to depict an image, it becomes the image itself. My background right now is a high definition picture of a perfect barrel wave with a surfer cruising through the middle, and through my laptop, I can view and manipulate the image. Through my laptop, I am connected to the rest of the world and to a certain extent, to the art the world has to offer and this connection is made, by my laptop, almost seamlessly. If this is art, it is the art of execution and efficiency, and it takes more than a utilitarian mindset to create it: it takes imagination and creativity. That is why I feel like my laptop is in some way a work of art.