I watched several videos on the Art21 website all about Bruce Nauman and his work. If I am being completely honest, I thought he was a super strange man whose art really didn’t stick with me all that much. However, I thought he had several interesting ideas and ways of approaching art and the work he makes. In one of the videos, he explains how he always thought that he could make something that appears to be functional, but when he would try and use it he couldn’t figure out what its function might be. He said that that’s what he loves about his art…figuring out what to do with it. He also talked a lot about teaching and his love of raising and training horses which is something I found very cool because he mentioned that he didn’t know anything about horses until he was forty years old, so he had a lot of catching up to do. Another video showed his staircase artwork, which was my personal favorite series. I liked how he intentionally makes the stairs not perfectly symmetrical so you have to really be paying attention to where you step whilst climbing or descending on it. One final video I thought was weird and interesting was one that was all about videos in slow motion of Nauman poking himself. He said he wanted to experiment with uncomfortability and forcing viewers to pay attention to the formal qualities of each frame, as the video was slowed. Overall, Nauman explores turning everyday activities, speech, and objects into works that challenge what people typically think of those things as, which is why I thought most of his art is very weird and unfamiliar.