Is there corn in my meds? Probably.

Christopher Williams: Almost everything you
come into contact with in your daily life has
had some relationship to corn as a product. The
lubricant used to grind the camera lenses in the
photographic industry has a corn by-product
in it; the material used to polish the steel has a
corn by-product in it; the filmstrip itself has a
corn by-product in it, and many of the chemicals
associated with the production of a fine-art print
also have corn in them.
Mark Godfrey: Perhaps the artificial corn in the
photograph was made using a corn-by-product as
well?
CW: Yes. It’s not real corn in the image, but
artificial corn made for window displays or
photographic shoots. The company that produced
it estimated that 75% of the material used to
make the artificial corn is in fact with a corn byproduct.
One could say the photographic industry
has as much to do with corn as it does with, for
example, light.

See the photo here:

Why does so much stuff sound like total bullshit to me? Not about the corn, which is sort of interesting, but by all the high-minded "look how I could win jeopardy and make a picture about it too" stuff. If artists all have a bone to pick with the universe, therefore revealing truths in their extraordinary neuroses, then is Williams's work all about "not feeling smart enough" at the base of it, and overcompensating for what he feels he lacks? Is that more or less interesting than your average 50-year-old who buys a bright red sportscar? I could be wrong, but I don't really think so. Feel free to argue with me on this and call me names like "ignoramus."