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Thursday, October 25, 2007

More Found Object Art

In the fall of 2004 a print shop went out of business. The owner invited my group of art talent teachers over to gather whatever junk we wanted. One item I found was a plastic container of brass tacks. I brought them to my small classroom. Over the next year I wondered what I could possible do with them. I also collected some gold chain from my co-op gallery that closed at end of 2004. You never know when you'll pick up some neat junk.

And then came the “Not Easel Art” Show. It was the show I mentioned in a previous post that did not include drawings or paintings. I had just worked with tacks. Well now I tried brass tacks. This time I found some odd pieces of wood in the classroom. They were in a box of wood scraps. Each one had a circular hole. I think the pieces supported some kind of pipe at one time.

Anyway, these are two pieces have intrigued people. I decided to make them opposites. One had a hole up and the other one had a hole down. Yes, my titles are usually matter of fact. It helps me to remember what I name my pieces.


Hole Up, brass tacks on wood with chain, 4.5" x 17"


Hole Down, brass tacks on wood with chain, 4.5" x 17"
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4 comments:

  1. Jet Fisher10/26/2007 8:20 AM

    Let me see, the first one says "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" in Braille and the second one, "L.H.O.O.Q.". great stuff.

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  2. dotartdude10/26/2007 11:55 AM

    LOL! :D

    I found an explanation of "L.H.O.O.Q." in a Taschen book on Marcel Duchamp. In French it reads phonetically, "Elle a chaud au cul" (She's got a hot ass). A typical art history textbook doesn't tell you that.

    For anyone wondering, there is no intended message in the arrangement of the tacks. I nailed them in randomly.

    Thank you for the chuckle. :D

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  3. Majik290310/27/2007 1:47 AM

    I'm not an art critic, nor did I know that the tacks formed braille. But I did think those two pieces are cool, how long did it take to make them?

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  4. dotartdude10/27/2007 2:08 AM

    Don’t worry about whether or not you are an art critic. There are some works you will like, some you will ignore and some you will dislike. Looking at art is a very subjective thing.

    jet fisher was teasing me about the pattern of the tacks on the two pieces. Their arrangement has nothing to do with Braille - an alphabet that blind people use to read. If you click on the link, you’ll see that Braille is made up of dots to represent letters.

    The only things I added to these two pieces of wood were the brass tacks and chains. The two pieces of wood already had paint on them. Before adding the tacks, I drew a grids on one side to decide where the tacks would go. I don’t think either of them took much more than an hour to make.

    Thank you for the compliment. I hope you stop by again.

    Mo : )

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