Apollonian and Dionysian review of Fallingwater and the Fountain

When one sees Frank Lloyd Wright's most famous building, Fallingwater, one can not help but stare in awe at it. Situated in the woods of Pennsylvania, it is a strikingly geometric building with so many organic shapes running through it and around it. The waterfall underneath it is the most curious thing about the construct. As a geologist, I wonder how long that house can actually exist since waterfalls erode back into the river that feeds them, meaning that the foundation of Fallingwater would eventually be gone. The other thing I think about is what Wright's pattern was for building such a geometric house? It seems very mathematical with all of the right angles, planes, and deft engineering, but at the same time does it attempt to show us geometry in a random, almost organic way? Either way, the shapes and colors, the hues and lines, all of it makes me feel peaceful inside. I'm a big sucker for being outdoors, so seeing all of the greenery and waterscapes around the house makes me want walk around the house and take in all of the smells of life and the feel of the cool humidity. Living there would be a dream. I imagine it's so quiet there that all of the owls, crickets and trees come out to talk at night in the soft breeze. No matter how I look at it, I'm not sure I could ever leave.

The fountain brings mixed thoughts and emotions with it. The name "fountain" suggests tranquility and relief, and this fountain can be no different from that ideal. What isn't relaxing about urinating, especially when you've been holding it in for the past hour you've been in a museum? Oh, that's the other side of this piece; it's in a museum, not a restroom. Take your bathroom pass elsewhere, citizen. Instead of being relaxing, it is kinda frustrating. Kinda really frustrating. Who would do this? Who would tempt me to make exhibition art of myself and the museum floor? Why would they put a urinal, of all things, on display? I found out that the artist in question wasn't allowed to put a piece on display for that opening, so he submitted another piece under disguise. Ironically, the fountain lives on in infamy for it's rebellious beginnings. it makes you wonder if there was anything else special about the urinal, however. It is signed, and it is somewhat unique, or at least different from urinals I commonly see. Is there a backstory to the urinal, or was it just yanked from the nearest men's restroom or hardware store? That, and now that it's famous, what story would it tell us about where it's been, and what kind of threatenings have been breathed against it? Who guards it from the apparent angry masses that would destroy it? Why do they do it? Do they really consider this "fountain" art?