It could be that in modern times, artists are finding it harder to make a statemet. Many artists have used art to try to surprise or shock people. But Kim Babon, A sociologist of art at Wake Forest University who studied hundreds of people's reactions to sculptures, found that context, not content, is what people care about the most. "People were concerned with the way art fits in the urban environment," comments Babon. What it comes down to is the flow of daily life: does a sculpture in a plaza break your routine by forcing you to take a different route to work? Does it break a city's routine by reducing use of a parking lot or park? And, just as important, does it break your visual habits or associations with a certain space? Babon says that people learn to care about a place because it has a particular meaning or because they use the place for a particular purpose. If an artwork seems to conflict with the meaning of the place or if it interferes with the way they use it, they are not happy.