June 28, 2007: Trash shadow

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

A pile of trash with two seagulls is an identifiable sculpture.

More than the other ones, at least. They're all amorphous, but one has seagulls.

This reminds me of the digital sundial (check out #8).

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

More than the other ones, at least. They're all amorphous, but one has seagulls.

Aren't all piles of trash amorphous at first glance? That was the point, they are supposed to appear as piles of trash and not hint at the shadow they would produce, even though they were carefully constructed like any other sculpture.

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Aren't all piles of trash amorphous at first glance?

I think that was Flint's point.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

I think that was Flint's point.

But the artist's point was to make a sculpture of the trash they generated in six months and have it show a shadow of them. To say that isn't a real sculpture, that it doesn't look like anything, the art work is only the shadow, is assinine. It was contructed to look exactly like the artist intended.