As someone of the creative sort, I’ve ran into all kinds of people who I view as taking it a bit too far.

I’m sure you’ve encountered them, the type with bizarre clothing, facial makeup that is just a bit too well designed…those that say they “don’t care” about their appearances, but could not be more obviously designed to grab attention…those that create “music” that has no sense of rhythm, tone or purpose…visual art which doesn’t even have a sense of composition or scope…people who claim that society doesn’t “understand” them, when it could not be more obvious that they themselves are trying intentionally to be so left-of-field to remain an outsider.

This story from Yale Daily News is such an example, gone too far.

I’ll just leave you with the teaser, but the story itself goes farther into this dimension of crazy.

Art major Aliza Shvarts ’08 wants to make a statement.

Beginning next Tuesday, Shvarts will be displaying her senior art project, a documentation of a nine-month process during which she artificially inseminated herself “as often as possible" while periodically taking abortifacient drugs to induce miscarriages. Her exhibition will feature video recordings of these forced miscarriages as well as preserved collections of the blood from the process.

Ugh.