One traditional role of art has been to offer a message. But do artistic message have to be ambiguous and indirect in order to be powerful? We discuss two contemporary works from chapter five of Ways of Looking: Play Pit (2000) by Miroslav Balka and The Green Line (2004) by Francis Alwys.  (Intro: Traveling in Your Mind (edited) by Loyalty Freak Music, from The Free Music Archive, CC0 1.0 Universal License. Outro: Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring (edited) by J.S. Bach, perf. by Kevin MacLeod, from Incompetech.com, CC BY 3.0 license.)

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