Deborah Fisher explains why public sculpture is inherently rude, and argumentative, and why it’s good to challenge our “internal notion of reality”.
A sculpture is this essentially rude thing, whose sole purpose in life is to take up space. It should therefore be unsurprising that public sculpture is, more often than not, the site of outrageous conflict, and that the overwhelming response to that inescapable fact is generally to settle on the most numbingly bland public work possible.
Bloomberg.com: Arts and Culture
Work comes out of work, onion skin by onion skin, You don’t think your way through work, you work your way through work.
Richard Serra
I’ve finally posted some pics of my wreck this journal project after 6 months.
I’ve made some good progress, and am about half through the journal. Check out my Wreck this Journal Gallery
I entered the papercraft punk rocker skull in Skull-A-DayPapercraft skull contest.
You have until this coming Sunday Oct 5 to enter also, and win a copy of the Skull-A-Day book SKULLS!
I think I’ve finally beat this one into submission.
The color’s a little off in this pic, I ‘ll try to get a better one, when the light’s better.
Just put this up on my Esty shop.
Jean Shin turns trash into sculpture. Some amazing works, including the Sound Wave below, and others made of pill bottles, computer keyboard keys, etc.
Need a pattern idea for something, a background for a scrapbook page or collage, or a webpage? Right here there’s thousands of them. All copyright free (in Australia–your mileage may vary, but it looks like most of them are old enough to be public domain, in the US, anyways). Here’s a couple of samples:
Via Susan Lomuto’s Daily Art Muse.
Jesus F**king C***st!! Shiver me f**king timbers! Avast, ye f***ing landlu–
Whats that?
It’s talk like a pirate day? Not swear like a pirate day?
Never mind…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZwuX5mCs9Q&fmt=18