Sculpture is RUDE

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.

Duet

I think I’ve finally beat this one into submission.

Duet--Watercolor on paper--30x22 inches
Duet--Watercolor on paper--30x22 inches

The color’s a little off in this pic, I ‘ll try to get a better one, when the light’s better.

Electronic Swatchbook

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.

Aaar!!!!!!!!

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…