This is wicked cool

[likethebeer]

Tara Donovan - a sculptor who works in common objects like paper plates, styrofoam cups, toothpickes, scotch tape.... Really pretty stuff.

This, for instance, is fishing line:


That was a nice artistic sorbet for the day, while reading the June/July Art in America (they've got articles on Dada!!). Sometimes I just leaf through those magazines, sometimes totally disheartened by the lack of anything interesting to me. Although I do admit that I tend to approach art for the visual first, while the intellectual tends to stay with me longer. But as I've mused to myself (and have told mda): there's only a narrow window of things that I like. It can't be retro or self-consciously new; that just bores/annoys me.

Comments

[coconuthead.livejournal.com]

Oh, i thought it was a muppet skin rug. it;s good that you told me its true origin.

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah, I see that now. I guess the skin is left over after the barbecue.

[semerkhet.livejournal.com]

I was thinking more along the line of about a dozen Smurf pelts, but I can see the muppet thing too.

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

Muppets certainly have a more soothing color palette than smurfs.