Contemporary art - Exercise 4 Looking at context

Not knowing there will be an exercise I have already seen a video about Hirst's Shark.

• First reaction to Hirst's shark: when I saw it for the first time in past (I do not remember exactly when) I was really surprised that somebody can call it art. The problem was I have got only the visual part of that piece, there was not any context mainly due to language obstacle, time (my country in '90s was awaken from communist regime), my knowledge about art.
• The emotional response: it is good question because I can see it only as reproduction from different angles. I can imagine what emotions must a man have when see the shark in gallery. Anyway, to see it on paper/monitor I have those emotions: mortality, some kind of devotion to this creature (knowing that shark is here over thousand millions years, he has great "tools" to kill), to be present next to a "killer" must arise several question around death, meaning of life, will I swim in sea at all :-)?
• I think the piece reminds us that we are not here forever and everything what we can see and realize about it happens only in our mind, the projection of our experiences, knowledge, emotions, conditional mind etc. Just a thought  crossed my mind: our "creator" and his presence in all form around us :-) Man - dominator on dry side and Shark on the wet side :-)
• The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living: The title is like a magic formula. It gives complete other point of view how to THINK about the object.

• First reaction Collier's still life: impermanence of life is one side of being, but the pleasures of life like music, alcohol are still with us. It is a window into 17th century. The death is same but the forms such the watch, the glass are a little bit different. Better said. The "nature" forms (death, grapes) are same the objects made by man have changed.
• The emotional response: stillness, humbleness
• What it is about? Simply said: life in its form. we live, we enjoy live, we die.
• The title is just a description. It could be without it and we know what it is about.