The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living

(photograph by Robert Caplin for The New York Times)

Peering into the open jaws of an enormous man-eating shark and contemplating the eternal struggle to survive, to consume; indeed, the insatiate maw that awaits us all? Now that's what I call "modern art." That whole thing about "questioning the relationship between viewer and art"? It can go fuck itself.