Hey Brooke. I like the new pictures even though I don't know a lot about what you are up to. Do you find the arrangements or do you set them up? I know that Bob said something about how the "photography" part isn't as interesting as the sculpture. What are your feelings about his comment?
A couple of years ago a junk collector was "busted" in my hometown of Canton, Ohio. He collected everything and had so much stuff that it was piled up on the front lawn. The police came by, after many complaints from the neighbors, and made him clean it up. He was rather upset because he saw his junk as "art," and thought of himself as an artist. Your project is a nice reminder of the idea that "one man's junk is another man's treasure." I also think that it references Marcel Duchamp, too.
Hmm...given that, I have an opinion on Bob's comment. The photography, as Bob says, maybe isn't as interesting as the sculpture, but I don't think it is supposed to be. Rather, your project is "conceptual" and the interesting part is the idea and how it adds to the "one man's junk is another man's treasure" dialogue. Or the "what is art" dialogue. Also, by photographing the junk you are recontextualizing and giving it importance, thereby making it art.
And most importantly, they are cool to look at! I'm especially enjoying the one that looks like a shopping cart on the verge of falling over (jpg 6 I believe).
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Hey Brooke. I like the new pictures even though I don't know a lot about what you are up to. Do you find the arrangements or do you set them up? I know that Bob said something about how the "photography" part isn't as interesting as the sculpture. What are your feelings about his comment?
A couple of years ago a junk collector was "busted" in my hometown of Canton, Ohio. He collected everything and had so much stuff that it was piled up on the front lawn. The police came by, after many complaints from the neighbors, and made him clean it up. He was rather upset because he saw his junk as "art," and thought of himself as an artist. Your project is a nice reminder of the idea that "one man's junk is another man's treasure." I also think that it references Marcel Duchamp, too.
Hmm...given that, I have an opinion on Bob's comment. The photography, as Bob says, maybe isn't as interesting as the sculpture, but I don't think it is supposed to be. Rather, your project is "conceptual" and the interesting part is the idea and how it adds to the "one man's junk is another man's treasure" dialogue. Or the "what is art" dialogue. Also, by photographing the junk you are recontextualizing and giving it importance, thereby making it art.
And most importantly, they are cool to look at! I'm especially enjoying the one that looks like a shopping cart on the verge of falling over (jpg 6 I believe).
Good work and good luck with candidacy.
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