Comments on: Beyond Metamorphosis

by: Lainie

Wed, 22 Feb 2006 15:39:05 +0000

As a monarch butterfly enthusiast, I was taken with the display. It may not be “art” in the classical way, but mind provoking just the same.

After my husband’s untimely death, the butterflies life changes were what kept me going strong.

by: DCA

Tue, 22 Jun 2004 17:50:19 +0000

Ignore the detractors, Clair, and keep cynicism alive. A little poison never hurt anyone.

by: Clair

Mon, 21 Jun 2004 16:45:56 +0000

Hey, the car I wrapped in toilet paper was beautiful too. I used quilted.

by: Becky

Sat, 19 Jun 2004 15:58:28 +0000

Thanks, Margo! Uh, I did see the installation. That’s how I managed to take a picture of it.

by: margo

Sat, 19 Jun 2004 08:34:16 +0000

becky s & clair
this installation was really beautiful. advice to you: get off your computers and go see it. i think it would do you some good. your cynicism is poison.

by: Becky

Fri, 18 Jun 2004 21:16:28 +0000

Clair,

The next time you wrap a car in toilet paper, take a picture and send it to me. I will write an art review for it, and then it will be art.

Getting some ideas: perhaps the toilet paper could be the artist’s environmental statement on the excrement created by motorized vehicles.

If you want to be a real artist, though, you cannot be deterred by a mere misdemeanor.

by: Clair

Fri, 18 Jun 2004 18:57:51 +0000

So a guy can dump a bunch of umbrellas in a park and it is “art” yet when I wrap a car in toilet paper it is called a misdemeanor. I don’t get it.

by: Moon Pappy

Thu, 17 Jun 2004 20:58:10 +0000

An here I thought it was just showing off by doing some “photoshop” tricks!
ps to pam, I too thought painting the iceberg red was over to top until one thinks about the philosophical aspect of that color with reference to the Titanic. Think about it…….bs and art!

by: Sassy J

Thu, 17 Jun 2004 19:09:28 +0000

I also thought of Christo’s umbrella pieces: one in Japan, one in the California: both killed people! http://www.theapesheet.com/archivethree/newart.html:

“…environmental artist Christo killed two people on completely different days in separate time zones with a work of art. On October 26, 1991, Lori Rae Keevil-Matthews was visiting Christo’s umbrella project in Tejon Pass, California. The piece was an environmental project consisting of 1,760, 485-pound yellow umbrellas planted throughout the pass. As part of the project, Christo had also installed 1,340, 485-pound blue umbrellas in Ibaraki, Japan. Keevil-Matthews was killed by the piece after a 40 M.P.H. wind pulled up an umbrella and smashed her against a boulder….On October 31, during the de-installation of the project in Japan, Masaaki Nakamura was electrocuted to death when the crane he was operating, which was in the process of removing a sculpture, touched a 65,000 volt high-tension line.”

Nice that Matthews is working on a more ephemeral, non-homicidal scale.

by: Sassy J

Thu, 17 Jun 2004 19:08:33 +0000

I also thought of Christo’s umbrella pieces: one in Japan, one in the California: both killed people! http://www.theapesheet.com/archivethree/newart.html
“…environmental artist Christo killed two people on completely different days in separate time zones with a work of art. On October 26, 1991, Lori Rae Keevil-Matthews was visiting Christo’s umbrella project in Tejon Pass, California. The piece was an environmental project consisting of 1,760, 485-pound yellow umbrellas planted throughout the pass. As part of the project, Christo had also installed 1,340, 485-pound blue umbrellas in Ibaraki, Japan. Keevil-Matthews was killed by the piece after a 40 M.P.H. wind pulled up an umbrella and smashed her against a boulder.” Nice that Matthews is working on a more ephemeral, non-homicidal scale.