In this latest episode the remaining six are paired off to tackle topics like heaven & hell, order & chaos, and man & woman. First of all, there is no way the paint tubes were random. The producers totally set those pairs up. They had to get Miles and Jaci together and they had to assign them man & woman.
Glorious reality tv ensued. Holy fuck you couldn’t script Miles 23 year old jerkoff skeeziness! I mean, you could, but its so much more fun when its a reality tv show. The bulk of Miles’ camera confessions were all about his evil plan to get Jaci to do something naked. The glee on that kid’s face when he convinced himself that he had tricked Jaclyn into do a portrait of herself masterbating was pretty priceless.
The truth is, no manipulation needed to get that girl to take her clothes off and call it art. Have you seen the other episodes? She would have done it even if she had been assigned heaven (I’m totally taking my clothes off to be Eve) or order (look at the perfect beauty and order of my Vajazzled private lady. LOL! Ok that was low, but I do love sneaking in a J.Love.Hew reference where I can.) So really Miles, you can try and take credit, but at this point we’ve well established it’s her thing.
All kidding aside, of all her nude art this season, this one was the best and most though provoking. Miles “man” piece not so much. He’s hardly the first man to punch his fist through drywall. Stealing Ryan’s left-over tar was also stupid. Ryan should have poured it out before leaving. The Miles school of thought boils down to this: just doing something he’s already done in school and repackage it. The only thing new to him this challenge was playing with tar.
Abdi and Nicole had order & chaos. That topic I thought was pretty hard. The judges hate when you go literal, so what could they really do? Nicole’s mousetrap game didn’t make sense. Abdi’s painting was something for Etsy.com.
Finally there was Peregrine and Mark. Heaven and Hell as a topic is quite frankly the most awesome of the bunch. There is so much you could do with it. Peregrine’s suggestion to do two portraits of Mark and his stomach scar was a pretty bullshit idea. Did she not pay attention to Ryan? The judges don’t like narcissistic portrait art. They are even tiring of Jaci’s pictures. So strike one.
Strike two is that Mark doesn’t feel strongly about his scar. It’s not hell to him. It’s not heaven. It’s not a moving subject matter for the main subject.
Strike 3: when Pergrine got exactly what she asked for she didn’t do a damn thing with it. Again, just like last week, I ask the same thing about her art. How is what she does any different than a 16 year old doing it in an art class in Ohio? All she did was cover a photo with glitter, grommets and cigarettes. Cigarettes are to Peregrine what nudity is to Jaclyn. She needs cigarettes for some weird reason. I don’t get it.
Mark got the short end of the stick on this one. He tried to be a good guy and compromise for his partner and got the boot for his trouble. For the curious, this is what Mark originally wanted to do for heaven. He went back and shot it on his own after he was off the show.
