Ping Pond

It looks like someone took two ping pong tables, cut them in half, rounded the ends, put them around a big, square, shallow aquarium, and called it art! And even got it exhibited in a museum!!

And that's exactly what it is. Something kind of like four-way ping pong. That you can actually play. That is actually fun enough to be an actual game. In a museum.

The artist is a fellow by the name of Gabriel Orozco. He explains: "I think every game is a universe in a way, or every game is an expression of how the universe works for different cultures. Ping pong is a game about the universe playing or is a game about how the universe is so arbitrary and how it’s constant...Every game has a connection to how we conceive nature and landscape. How we order and we structure reality."

Who knew?

See this for more examples of Orozco's work, and play.