Life Sized Marionette Actually Dumb Human

Suspended, by wires and a harness, from the top of the Museum of Contemporary Art dangles a man. A crowd has gathered at the tail end of the lunch hour, even for late lunchers, milling between the stalls for the farmers market. Some are pretending to buy, others there to buy find themselves (or the vegetable hawkers) distracted by a life sized marionette. I came to shop but pause with a tomato in hand waiting for the show. I put it down and pick up some broccoli, looking up, still nothing. I wait a while longer examining the rigging and the man high above moving the Deus ex machina. I can't help wondering what this is supposed to represent. Perhaps its some sort of social commentary. The dangley bit is dressed as a normal businessman. Maybe something along the lines of how the corporate man is merely a puppet of the government or how we are all tied to, or controlled by, something. Since it is an art museum maybe something about being a slave to image. He moves about a bit, at one point ending up upside down, but nothing that much more interesting than the lovely plants, fruits and vegetables. Nothing really more pressing than getting back to work. Maybe I missed the "show". Maybe I missed the point. How is this art? The eternal question facing us, less sensitive and less embracing, as we look at a piece of suspended string or solid color canvas. So...is it a cat toy? Hey, that's the color I painted my wall...so it is art too right? For those of us trying desperately to understand "art" we sometimes mistake the trash can in the corner as an actual trash can or don't sit on the bench because it might be art. Maybe I was mistaken, maybe we were all taken in by the window washer.
Maybe this life sized marionette is actually just another dumb human.