Snakes and tourists

I don't see as many snake charmers as you might imagine.
So I did stop to watch when I saw this woman and her husband posing with a cobra and two other snakes the man pulled out of a bag.
Venom removed or not, there was no "charming" music being played and this just seems very brave of them.

Huh?

Art that makes you say, "huh?"
That's what Wassily Kandinsky was all about.

I mean, what do you think of when you look at this?
I see a dangling, dancing spider; a badger with a kite tail and a little yellow beetle with a paint palette--I've had to personify everything in order to make sense of it.

One of my students likes to say that everything looks like cheese.
In this one, he's probably correct.

Wassily Kandinsky's art may raise eyebrows, but he had an excellent understanding of form.
They even made him a professor. He wrote books and gave hundreds of lectures on the elements of design, the stuff we've been studying for the last few months.
So really, what can we dare to say?

The forms we created today were a little more recognizable.
Lizards,
Snakes
and Turtles.

And a nice wild--excuse me--abstract background of shape, line and color for them to live in.

Wearing snakes

Would you like to wear a snake?

This is apparently, a popular desire of tourists. Maybe they don't know they want to try it until they see the man with a snake around his neck and he charms them into wanting to try it for themselves.

And if you want more fun than just wearing a snake, you can check out the snake shows, too. I hear they put snakes in their mouths because their hands are already full of snakes, and it's really impressive.
I don't know, I sat out on that fun.