I am Karan from Olympia, WA.
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Now that Spain’s finished off the World Cup, all that is left is to figure out what to do with all those vuvuzelas. Here’s a thought....
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Work of Art was not so very interesting this week. The whole premise involved driving an Audi through NYC to the Audi dealership and collecting impressions all along the way. Not that it was an Audi sponsored episode or anything. No not that. Not even.
Yes it was.
Anyway, the artists all arrived at the dealership and had an hour to soak up inspiration. Miles took a nap. They then returned to the studio, worked (or not) until midnight, returned the next day for another hour and then faced the music.
Miles did another splendid silk screen with what he said were street signs positioned in front of it but they were blank. The image was an empty door stoop. The street signs, blank as well - maybe an homage to a crime scene? I dunno.
Abdi painted a self-portrait depicting himself either as a racing luger or car driver. It was big and red and very grinny. I liked it. It is on the right.
(to see the other works of “art” click here)
Erik painted a portrait of his girlfriend Suzie who appeared to be laying upon old candy bar wrappers or crumbled cash, I’m not sure. I’m also not sure of how it fit into this weeks Audi theme but one thing was clear. He HATES Jaclyn. He stood around glaring at her through the entire episode and I’m thinking if she turns up dead, Suzie just won’t lie around in trash waiting for Erik to return.
Speaking of Jaclyn, her work was a series of photographs of men who looked upon her in the Audi dealership. She said she felt put upon by their gazes...not that any old person standing in front of a big old picture window taking pictures wouldn’t draw attention. She blopped paint over their faces...in the photos, not in real life...an attempt she claimed to neutralize them (neutralize as in Star Trek...kablooie). The effect made the images look much more like she was protecting their identities while she documented subjects for a private eye investigation. Again, I didn’t like her work and her described inspiration sounded concocted.
Jamie Lynn went almost the whole episode before she mentioned God and only then to blame trust that he would dispose of this TV opportunity when he saw fit. Her work was something that looked like a teen girl clock. She placed drawings of herself around a wheel and it looked, well, stupid. I think if she’d just lined up all her images without the wheel, it would have been much better. But she didn’t ask me so I won’t suggest it. Disregard the sentence where I actually suggested it.
Mark did a grid like painting that I rather liked. My taste must be all in my mouth because none of the judges liked it much and it landed him in the bottom group. It was very Mondrian-like...but according to one of the judges, it was an example of painterbation. Love that word and I will find a way to use it at least once a day.
Nicole did a sculpture she called “Suspension”. I do not understand how it relates to the Audi theme. I do not understand the parts. I do not understand the whole. I do not understand “Suspension”. That’s sounds rather Suessian doesn’t it? I can say for certain that it was very white. The Work of Art editors are trying to insinuate a showmance between Nicole and Miles...I guess we’ll see where it leads to at least while the show continues.
Speaking of Suess, Peregrine, aka Falcon Girl is funny. She did a silly piece that malapropismed all sorts of variations based on Audi...saudi, audio, audios. Not to totally spoil the suspense, at least yet, she made it through to the next round. I like her and I like that she swears like a longshoreman. We heard more beeping from her mouth than all the other cars on that drive across town to the dealership.
Ryan did a triptych - maybe inspired by Mark’s three panel effort last week - showing himself driving in an Audi. It was a realistic painting but it was so literal that the concept didn’t seem particularly artistic. The most interest comment about Ryan’s work came from Simon de Pury (he is the Tim Gunn dude in this series) who observed that Ryan was a bit of a narcissist because he continued to paint images of himself. Aren’t most artists narcissists?
So...the results? I don’t agree so I don’t even want to tell you who one. I’ll give you a hint...Erik HATES her. I’m not in that corner yet, but every week I edge closer to it. If she does one more naked photo shoot, I’m so going to blob paint over her face. Of course then Leonard would kill me for messing up his big old TV set. Jaime Lynn was sent packing. And she cried real tears reflecting, I’m sure, that she was very upset with God’s plan. It’s hard to believe that God planned for her to make a piece of art that belongs in this gallery.
Today when I was plowing through this site, I wanted to see other images of Trachymedusa (that’s a jellyfish...I love jellyfish) so I entered Trachymedusa into google images and was led to Kazoo which has the most beautiful images of all sorts of living creatures. The big challenge is that the site is in Japanese and I had to haphazardly bounce from one page to another to enjoy them. Each image seems to be offered up in a variety of image sizes and now the image on the right is my new desktop. I loves it.
So...I know that more than 8 million people found this before me...I still think it’s a hoot:
If When I win the lottery, I plan to buy an apartment or cottage in countries around the world. I’ll spend the first few years just shopping for places I’d like to spend time and then the next few years buying my new abodes and then I’ll spend the rest of my life living in them. That’s my plan. My first apartment will be in Venice. I know that for sure.
Now that I’ve got a plan, I’m sure that golden ticket will come my way.
