10/17/2005: "Father" art installation

[darclauz]

why would you feel a need to sculpt your father out of chewing gum? beef might indicate some abuse, i guess...toilet paper might be contempt. what is chewing gum saying? some kind of need to get through who he is, digest him, cannibalize? finding him unpalatable? finding him plastic? making his beef used gum might be seeing her father as a sham, as something so low as to be trash instead of what might be top grade chow.

wolf? your insight?

[wolf]

Originally Posted by darclauz

wolf? your insight?

Chewing gum is non-nutritious. It gives us nothing and leaves us with tooth decay and a strained jaw. You can blow neat bubbles, but they pop, leaving you surprised, disappointed, and covered in cloyingly sweet goo. Like male parents, it's non-essential to our lives. The only relationship the artist had with her father was what she could get out of him, rather than what he was made of.

Either that, or it's just fucking weird and pointless crap, like most modern art.

[dar512]

Originally Posted by wolf

Either that, or it's just fucking weird and pointless crap, like most modern art.

Wolf --> nail --> head.