March 13, 2017
In honor (or protest) of daylight savings time, a change that always rattles my system, I thought I’d devote this week to some finds that have to do with changes and shifts in perspective.
We’ll start with a short clip about an L.A. artist who creates funky figures out of card board, deposits them somewhere in public space, lives with the emphemeral nature of such creations, and hopes that he affects viewers’ perspective for just a short moment.
http://narrative.ly/meet-the-banksy-of-cardboard-curiosities/
One can be of mixed minds as to whether these objects are art, just as graffiti might or might not be considered art, or any manipulation of environments of that kind; but I like the idea that something sculptural is offered, popping up out of the ordinary, making you pause.
I have seen smaller versions of this here and there in my travels – as shown in today’s photographs – and always appreciated the willingness of people to create something that you know has just a few days to exist or that catches someone thinking to him- or herself “what on earth is that?”
Steve Tilden
Love them! Indeed, the visual surprise, and the ephemeral nature of them. These seem to me to be much better than graffiti — graffiti usually soils some surface and has to be painted over (my place was hit twice while I was building it, and I was able to scrub it off the building with acetone, but on the wood retaining wall I couldn’t paint over and it shows when wet). But if someone had placed something like what you show on my place I would have been pleased.
Hmmm, maybe I might play with that notion . . .
Deb Meyer
The gorilla made me smile!
Martha Ullman West
I’m still systemically upset by the shift to daylight savings time, but I enjoyed this post very much indeed. Remember the sculptures of cows and pigs that appeared randomly all over Portland several years ago? I thought they were a lot of fun, but not everyone did.