But I was determined to enter the art challenge. However, in looking back over my work this last year, it was mostly for assignments, which were the opposite of art. Except for one assignment, where I was creating a composite. This was part of it.
And it struck me that in some undefinable way, this was "art". Because it is absurd. And yes, Paul, because a part of me feels that more often than not, the debates on what is and isn't art are absurd.
Each of us defines art through our own sensibilities, and often find it in the most unexpected places. For me, the quacking shadow says it all.
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Oh the absurdity! the dirty foot makes the shot for me, spinning imaginary tales of drunken dancing with reckless abandon at parties that go too late but end too early!
Well this is great fun. It looks like it's either a considered piece of slightly subversive photo-art vaguely within the genre of Cindy Sherman, or a mischievous piss-take about the gullibility of the arty crowd, daring them to swallow the bait and take it seriously. Of the two, I hope it's the latter. Whichever of the two it's definitely art, but rather more so if it's of the piss-take variety. That would be wickedly funny, and certainly legitimate art via the back door route. In case you don't speak Anglo-English, piss-take is a perfectly acceptable term for an ironic balloon-busting prick (with a pin, or other suitable skewer). If it's merely the former Cindy Sherman type however, it's still pretty interesting and engaging. Not exactly in the Banksy league of urban subversion, as it's only moderately original and has no overt context, but if you were to make a giant stencil of it, and climb up on the Stature of Liberty by night and stencil it 30 feet high onto her bosom, it'd become fabulously transgressive art. So if you are not taking the piss, then I hope you are preparing the stencil right now. Thank you.
I can't put my finger on who this reminds me of.
My first thought was Cindy Sherman but I'm sure it is someone else.
Anyhow, there are some great subtle details here. The seemingly dirty foot. The spotlight. The obviously strange fall ... or dance ... or, dream. FOr being so simple, it is well worth a long look.
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