Monday, July 7, 2008

Am I Seeing Too Much?



I see so many possibilities in art expressions that I'm beginning to see art everywhere I go. The interesting configuration of the two bicycles (or shall I say one-and-a-half?) stacked vertically against the lamp-post caused me to do a double take and to wonder if this is just someone's practical way of parking his bike. Or is it an art installation placed there on purpose? After all, this lamp-post is just along the walkway outside the New Museum. Does art imitate life, or does life imitate art? What do you think?

I have an idea. If I'm an artist with the means, I would choose a road (in China?) with a row of lamp-posts and put up a series of bicycles, stacked in different configuration of completeness or in parts. Then I can spin a story of how I want to comment against the environment assault on fossil fuel and say that I want people to go back to the good old bikes. Deep, eh?

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