When an audience becomes present during the production of art, the artist becomes acutely aware of his or her actions, and the pressure of watching eyes often causes the artist to change or alter the way they perform. An audience is not necessary for art to occur, however. Art is any thing you do consciously that leads to an observation, emotional expression, realization, or end product. For my performance experiment I chose to talk on the phone for two hours. (Luckily, I have a lot of friends that I haven't talked to in a while! :)) Though my performance did not have an intentional audience, there was someone receiving a message on the other end of the phone, and my family could hear and see me walk by occasionally talking. My performance was a form of art- communication always involves some selection, presentation, and interpretation of words- but visually speaking, I also exuded lots of non-verbal communication in the form of hand waving, pacing, eye rolling, smiling, etc. Since, like I mentioned earlier, art is anything you do that leads to an observation, emotional expression, realization, or end product, and I observed and learned a lot about myself and the movement of my body, expressed emotion, and came to an end product, my phone conversations were indeed art. There is no real difference between life and art- life is art. In life you express emotions, come to realizations, observe, and create end products, everything you do in life has some artistic value. The only thing separating life from art is your conscious realization of life as art. If you chose not to notice the things you can learn about yourself by doing simple tasks, then you are not witnessing the art of life. If everyone would open their eyes, they would notice that everything happening around them is a work of art.