when I hear that whistle blow, I hang my head and cry…
Probably, about a year from now, I’m going to travel to Philadelphia to dismantle my Eastern State Penitentiary sculpture, and haul it off to sell it for scrap. This is the unfortunate necessity for the non commercially viable sculptor that I am: eventual destruction and disposal.
So it goes with my chopstick bridge. I’ve needed to do this for a while now. With the scale of the piece, the difficulty of transport, no storage space, and no takers, it had to go. It was the first project I did in grad school, it took a lot of time, and I liked it quite a bit, so it was kinda sad for me. I’m wondering if this is what it feels like to shoot a faithful injured horse that you’ve loved and ridden. I don’t know, but I had to grit my teeth to smash the thing, and it certainly wasn’t any fun. OK, maybe a little fun…
Rob wrote:
Hey this is a good thing. Now when someone makes a catalog of your work, they can put photos of the bridge in there with the caption “Destroyed 2008″. I suggest taking the photos down and telling everyone that it spontaneously caught on fire. That way it can say “Destroyed by spontaneous combustion, 2008″.
Love the art openings post. Good to see you out and about. I’ll have to look up Shane’s gallery again. I remember it from the Armory. They had sold everything by the time we got there so it was all stacked up on the floor and they were just hanging out.
Posted on 11-Feb-08 at 11:18 am | Permalink
GIERSCHICK wrote:
> This is sad but needs to happen.
Posted on 11-Feb-08 at 11:31 am | Permalink