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[Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer]

xlch58 at swbell.net wrote:
> Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer wrote:
>> There are a whole bunch of art crazies who do stuff like that....find 
>> a setting they like, make and install the piece they think belongs there.
>>  Large or small,elaborate or just a few licks, they then abandon it 
>> anonymously.
>> A few hide and video the consequences..the purists just split and go 
>> on to the next piece of work.
>> It sort of overlaps with  street theater.
>> As our economic efficiency drops away from Chinese industrial 
>> standards...we get closer to the above mentioned crazies;
>> Hey, welcome, there's lots of room, yet.
>>   a Soused PF
>>
> Try looking at the website:
> 
> <http://www.found-art.com>
> 
> The first time I heard about it was via Kirsten Skiles's Leaflady 
> blog.    I seem to recall she tried it, but I may be misremembering, I 
> may have found the link off of one of the links on her blog page.    It 
> is really a neat idea I think, though better suited maybe to artists 
> that can create something unique and then semi mass produce.  Postcard 
> art seems to be popular.  Think about the effect a small handforged 
> object might have on the finder though.  Simple forged details often 
> escape the notice of most non smiths, who have never invested themselves 
> in a piece of iron.  Leaving a small and sparingly worked bit of iron 
> for someone to find changes the equation -- the chance event of finding 
> it draws the finder in.  Finding the object makes them special, and they 
> in turn make the object special.  A simple scroll or even a small forged 
> leaf now enjoys a far different appraisal in the eyes of the finder than 
> the glance it might have received on a table of wares for sale or as a 
> faint detail of a larger work.  Obscurity banished by circumstance -- 
> participatory art for blacksmiths, forcing the finder to complete the 
> piece with their imagination.   Or maybe it is just me that has a half 
> dozen cheap single earrings found in parking lots around the country 
> that I can't seem to toss out......
> 
> Charles
Hi Charles;
That site is sweet but stilted for my taste. I was thinking of 
more ambitious stuff...
I had a friend, years ago,who didn't want for bucks and would do 
pretty major installations of his own work in public places. He'd 
rent uniforms and any necessary equipment, traffic cones etc and 
come in with a team on Sundays and do it. When questioned, he'd 
wave his clipboard around in a harried manner and mutter " See 
the boss".
Another friend climbs down a small cliff to an isolated beach for 
a few visits every summer. There is a huge redwood log with a 
burly end washed up there that he carves on...a female figure 
apparently.
I've never seen it, but he's been at it for years.
I heard there were some crazies up near Puget Sound who did big 
steel wind instrument sculptures on a similar basis a while ago too.
As for the packrattery..I suspect it's a brain chemical function 
and they will be threatening to "cure" us way too soon...pete f
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