The Amateur vs. The Professional

To me July's work was funny, but not always funny "ha ha." My initial reaction- puzzlement, but as I continued watching I found myself intrigued.

To me the professional represented the public self and the amateur represented the private self. The performance between the two was an obvious self-reflection. The professional is vigilant of the amateur's existence- scrutinizing her every movement and trying fruitlessly to quantify and interpret her actions, but to no avail. The humor comes then with the failure of the professional. As Freud noted there is a relationship between the joke and the comic. The professional says, "we live in the same world" which could be interpreted as the two living in the same body, but the funny thing is they obviously have no understanding for each other. This piece plays on the duality of human nature.