Blog #10 The Bomar Gene

While I suppose Jason Nelson could be considered somewhat of a creative genious, I think that the way his head works is completely unique from any sane person on this planet. While we have worked with multiple pieces of his work, I am still drawn back to the Bomar Gene. Normally hypertexts like this that  are seemingly so abstract are unappealing to me. I don’t want to have to draw insights on human romantic relationships from a hypertext of a wagging dog’s tail. While the Bomar Gene had some abstract genes, It also had genes that really appealed to me.

The stories on the side of the window gave the hypertext a personal and more meaningful appeal. They were all stories that were strange accounts of what we can assume are actual documented incidents that left me with an eery empty feeling in the pit of my stomach. The genre of the stories made me feel like there was something I wasn’t quite getting, that I could feel a meaning in the pit of my stomach but I just couldn’t figure out what it was., or I hadn’t quite reached it yet, or maybe I just wasn’t looking at the work collectively enough, or maybe there was riddle behind the gene names that would make the meaning less evasive. I was particularly fascinated with the Felton Color Gene, I remember telling all of my roommates and people I talked to that week about it. It was just so strange, morbid, and peaceful all at once. That someone would take that authority into their hands in order to save a girls life. That someone would be gifted enough to understand another so unlike her mentally. It just really struck a cord with me.

I was really disappointed when we watched the viedo of Jason Nelson as he tried to explain, or rather mess with us, fool us, tease us about his work. I don’t think he was even remotely genuine in explaining his genes. They seemed too simple and from what we’ve seen from him throughout the class, it seems as if he likes to hide his deepness behind simplicity. His video showed us that he’d rather make jokes and make fun rather than make deep evocative and insightful points. But the quality and genre of his work just makes it unbelievable to me, and perhaps the only person that it is meant to have meaning for is him anyways.