Hey Grumpy :-). I didn’t know about Basquiat; his work certainly looks cool! One thing that interested me about the toilet door was that it was done by scratching off the existing paint, not by using markers or pens.
Reminds me that there was a plot line in last night’s ‘Bill’ about a graffiti artist who had been given community service of cleaning walls as a punishment, and then had gone on to write messages on walls by cleaning the grime away. Now I think about it, I don’t think we found out if he got away with it or not, but I thought his arguement was sound!
LOL, Laura. In fact probably more unsettling than them seeing me take a photo of the lurid condom vending machine outside the cubicles.
Basquiat made loads of money with his graffiti art before killing himself with excess. Read that his assisant saved up to buy one of his art pieces only to have it taken from him by Basquiat because he didn’t consider him a worthy person to own his art! Wow, meglamania or what?
You ever had a passing moment of concern about the home one of your art pieces went to or can you let them go completely? Would have thought when making art with ‘personality’ (like puppets) that might be quite difficult?
LOL. It would feel like such a put down, wouldn’t it?
Hmmm… I do get quite attached to things while I am making them, and I think it is usually a sign that they have real character, so will work really well. Then I have to carry them around and play with them while I still have them.
But while I used to find it difficult to part with things I made, I don’t find it so at all these days. When you make things for a particular production or company or on contract you know from the start that you aren’t keeping them, and that helps. Sometimes it’s a blessing, when you are really sick of something you are making! And it is also good in the sense that you don’t have to worry about storing what you make.
Makes me think of the grafitti artist Basquiat. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aaworld/arts/basquiat.html
Nice! & toilet cubicle photography is always good for unsettling people in the cubicles on either side.
Hey Grumpy :-). I didn’t know about Basquiat; his work certainly looks cool! One thing that interested me about the toilet door was that it was done by scratching off the existing paint, not by using markers or pens.
Reminds me that there was a plot line in last night’s ‘Bill’ about a graffiti artist who had been given community service of cleaning walls as a punishment, and then had gone on to write messages on walls by cleaning the grime away. Now I think about it, I don’t think we found out if he got away with it or not, but I thought his arguement was sound!
LOL, Laura. In fact probably more unsettling than them seeing me take a photo of the lurid condom vending machine outside the cubicles.
Basquiat made loads of money with his graffiti art before killing himself with excess. Read that his assisant saved up to buy one of his art pieces only to have it taken from him by Basquiat because he didn’t consider him a worthy person to own his art! Wow, meglamania or what?
You ever had a passing moment of concern about the home one of your art pieces went to or can you let them go completely? Would have thought when making art with ‘personality’ (like puppets) that might be quite difficult?
LOL. It would feel like such a put down, wouldn’t it?
Hmmm… I do get quite attached to things while I am making them, and I think it is usually a sign that they have real character, so will work really well. Then I have to carry them around and play with them while I still have them.
But while I used to find it difficult to part with things I made, I don’t find it so at all these days. When you make things for a particular production or company or on contract you know from the start that you aren’t keeping them, and that helps. Sometimes it’s a blessing, when you are really sick of something you are making! And it is also good in the sense that you don’t have to worry about storing what you make.