11/29/2005: Dollhouses of vacuum cleaner dust

Undertoad · 11-29-2005, 09:47 AM

via Boing Boing. What was I saying yesterday about art of the commoner? Here's another example, from another direction. Artist Maria A. Lopez creates dust houses, motivated by her time cleaning houses while she studied art. As put so well by Art MoCo, an online contemporary art magazine:

When Colombian Maria Adelaida Lopez moved to Philadelphia do a Master’s degree in art, she cleaned houses to help support herself, as she says, the way many other Marias do. Her series of Dust Houses are toy doll houses covered over in vacuum cleaner lint, representing the themes of domesticity and the other, the ideas of cleaning up after oneself and putting one’s house in order. Now an artist and educator in Miami, Lopez no longer cleans for others, but has filled vacuum cleaner bags given to her.

Nothing to sneeze at.

Sundae · 11-29-2005, 09:57 AM

I thought this was super-cool when I believed it to be hoover-bag dust somehow sculpted. Reading on & discovering it it a proper dolls' house covered in dust somehow just seems unclean. My mind seems to class the former as art and the latter as a dirty toy.

It's an interesting idea though.

BigV · 11-29-2005, 10:19 AM

I made the same wrong assumption, Sundae Girl. If I want to see dusty toys, I can just walk into my kid's rooms.

Statement, yeah, art, :shrugs:.

Trilby · 11-29-2005, 10:32 AM

I thought it was a house made completely of dust, too.

Now I'm all disenchanted.

mlandman · 11-29-2005, 11:00 AM

Thread should be: dollhouses covered in vacuum cleaner dust.

glatt · 11-29-2005, 11:15 AM

I was also fooled. I saw this on Boing Boing first and assumed it was a dust house, not a dust covered house.

Still, it might be kind of fun to make. I can imagine (without following any of the links to find out for sure) that she took a little spray on adhesive, like 3M Super 77, and then used a reversable shop vac to blow dust onto the now-sticky house. It would be dusty, and you would want to do it outside, but it could be really quick. I bet you could do a house in 5 minutes. Go into production.

capnhowdy · 11-29-2005, 01:01 PM

looks like most everything in my office. and I never called it art....until today.

Elspode · 11-29-2005, 01:09 PM

I'm trying to imagine a market for this sort of artwork...and I can't.

SteveDallas · 11-29-2005, 01:10 PM

Market, shmarket, it's ART, you philistine!

xoxoxoBruce · 11-29-2005, 03:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sundae Girl

My mind seems to class the former as art and the latter as a dirty toy.

I once knew a "Maria" that spoke Spanish and cleaned houses. She was a dirty toy.

This "artist" also does doll house sized funniture, some is lint covered and some is charred with a torch.

LabRat · 11-29-2005, 04:17 PM

Do you know what is IN vacuum cleaner 'dust'? I'm filing this puppy under WTF. Egads.

Happy Monkey · 11-29-2005, 05:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LabRat

Do you know what is IN vacuum cleaner 'dust'?

Everything in your house, but in smaller pieces.

beavis · 11-29-2005, 05:34 PM

including a fair bit of expired pieces of you...

Kitsune · 11-29-2005, 07:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by beavis

including a fair bit of expired pieces of you...

...that have been digested and then excreted by dust mites.

That's a lot of mite poo for the sake of art.

xoxoxoBruce · 11-29-2005, 07:54 PM

That would make it Mighty Mite Poo.

11-29-2005, 09:47 AM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	11/29/2005: Dollhouses of vacuum cleaner dust via Boing Boing. What was I saying yesterday about art of the commoner? Here's another example, from another direction. Artist Maria A. Lopez creates dust houses, motivated by her time cleaning houses while she studied art. As put so well by Art MoCo, an online contemporary art magazine: When Colombian Maria Adelaida Lopez moved to Philadelphia do a Master’s degree in art, she cleaned houses to help support herself, as she says, the way many other Marias do. Her series of Dust Houses are toy doll houses covered over in vacuum cleaner lint, representing the themes of domesticity and the other, the ideas of cleaning up after oneself and putting one’s house in order. Now an artist and educator in Miami, Lopez no longer cleans for others, but has filled vacuum cleaner bags given to her. Nothing to sneeze at.

11-29-2005, 10:19 AM	#3
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	I made the same wrong assumption, Sundae Girl. If I want to see dusty toys, I can just walk into my kid's rooms. Statement, yeah, art, :shrugs:. __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

11-29-2005, 10:32 AM	#4
Trilby Slattern of the Swail Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 15,654	I thought it was a house made completely of dust, too. Now I'm all disenchanted. __________________ In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum

11-29-2005, 11:00 AM	#5
mlandman Coronation Incarnate Join Date: Dec 2001 Posts: 87	agreed -- misleading title Thread should be: dollhouses covered in vacuum cleaner dust.

11-29-2005, 01:01 PM	#7
capnhowdy Blatantly Homosapien Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 6,200	looks like most everything in my office. and I never called it art....until today. __________________ Please type slowly. I can't read very fast............... and no holy water, please.

11-29-2005, 09:57 AM	#2
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	I thought this was super-cool when I believed it to be hoover-bag dust somehow sculpted. Reading on & discovering it it a proper dolls' house covered in dust somehow just seems unclean. My mind seems to class the former as art and the latter as a dirty toy. It's an interesting idea though.

11-29-2005, 11:15 AM	#6
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	I was also fooled. I saw this on Boing Boing first and assumed it was a dust house, not a dust covered house. Still, it might be kind of fun to make. I can imagine (without following any of the links to find out for sure) that she took a little spray on adhesive, like 3M Super 77, and then used a reversable shop vac to blow dust onto the now-sticky house. It would be dusty, and you would want to do it outside, but it could be really quick. I bet you could do a house in 5 minutes. Go into production.

11-29-2005, 01:09 PM	#8
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	I'm trying to imagine a market for this sort of artwork...and I can't. __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

11-29-2005, 01:10 PM	#9
SteveDallas Your Bartender Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Philly Burbs, PA Posts: 7,651	Market, shmarket, it's ART, you philistine!

11-29-2005, 04:17 PM	#11
LabRat twatfaced two legged bumhole Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 3,143	Do you know what is IN vacuum cleaner 'dust'? I'm filing this puppy under WTF. Egads. __________________ Strength does not come from how much weight you can lift, or how many miles you can run. It comes from knowing that you set a goal, and rose to the challenge. Strength comes from within.

11-29-2005, 05:34 PM	#13
beavis butthead died Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: mtv reruns Posts: 88	including a fair bit of expired pieces of you...

11-29-2005, 07:54 PM	#15
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	That would make it Mighty Mite Poo. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

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