Experience and Response:

The first thing I noticed was that the artwork was kind of in its own corner of the gallery. Although it was openly connected to the rest of the room, it was in its own space. This portion of the room didn’t have any direct lighting above it, probably to allow the candlelight to be the primary source of light, which made me feel integrated into the piece. 

The guy in the picture was making a lot of sounds by interacting with the exhibit he was standing in front of, which annoyed me at first. However, after a while I realized that as the artist hadn’t provided headphones like some of the other exhibits in the collection or asked for a separated room, perhaps I was supposed to experience it with background noises kind of like how a fire is often the center of many other activities.