I think that what Alan Kaprow was trying to express in this article is that the outcome of art desn't always start with the intention of making art, and that the activities of the mundane daily routines we perform and disregard are often beautiful. As Kaprow illustrates in his article, Duchamp initially intended the idea of making a non-art object into an art piece by simply putting it into a gallery or frame of some sort as ironic. However, as time progressed and other artists took note and followed in Duchamp's footsteps of the art/non-art paradox it became trivialized, because the provocative questions became forgotten. In Kaprow's piece the act of tooth brushing, which is seemingly so ordianry that we often forget where we intitaially insert our toothbrushes in our mouths, he fixated on the the motions and nuances that went into this process; therefore, bringing back the provocative questions into the viewer and performer's mind.
I believe that this relates to the overall theme in our class, because as in our current project we are choosing a verb, which is an action. What goes into this action or how we demonstrate a specific action can become more than just the whole of the action itself. This article will help us to examine the parts of the whole that go into our art, and our actions.