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Manifest Station: A Transparent Utility Box Painted by Mona Caron
This fun piece was painted by illustrator and muralist Mona Caron on Duboce Avenue at Church Street in San Francisco. Titled Manifest Station, the small mural was painted on a standard utility box and has to be viewed from a specific spot so that the horizon lines of the artwork match those of the actual intersection. As an added bonus, a mural in the background which was repainted in part on the utility box is actually an older piece by the same artist. Caron is currently working on a surprisngly great series of weeds and just painted a giant wildflower in Union City. (via CJWHO)
2009
Dimensions Variable
Materials: 9 channel video with sound, 4 minutes
Project Venues:
2010 Real Art Ways, Hartford CT
2009 The Brooklyn Art Collective, New York
I film body parts and edit the fragmented parts to create inhuman form. Utilizing massage as a part of my art practice, I would like to explore it as a new organic life form.
I have no idea what the purpose of art or anything is. I think good fiction writing is exploring questions more than giving answers.
No, I don’t see any difference between ‘art’ and ‘entertainment.’ It’s like Raymond Chandler said, ‘There’s no high art or low art, there’s just art, and precious little of it.’
People only read books that keep them entertained, no matter what the aim of the book is, or the author’s intent. I read Kurt Vonnegut because he keeps me reading and turning the pages.
Whenever I hear art snobs diss genre comics or movies or books, I just feel bad for them. Entertaining people isn’t a small thing, and there are very few people who can do it well enough to earn a living doing it. And then I remember that Shakespeare was his day’s equivalent of a pulp writer and I laugh a little.
Ed Brubaker (via misterpeace)
Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences. (Roy Ascott’s phrase.) That solves a lot of problems: we don’t have to argue whether photographs are art, or whether performances are art, or whether Carl Andre’s bricks or Andrew Serranos’s piss or Little Richard’s ‘Long Tall Sally’ are art, because we say, ‘Art is something that happens, a process, not a quality, and all sorts of things can make it happen.’ … [W]hat makes a work of art ‘good’ for you is not something that is already ‘inside’ it, but something that happens inside you — so the value of the work lies in the degree to which it can help you have the kind of experience that you call art.
Brian Eno (via cavetocanvas)
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