civilized ku # 3048 ~ good clean fun

glass top porch table ~ Au Sable Forks, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggen

In a comment on the entry preceding this one, John Linn seemed to express a bit of a rebuke, albeit quite civil / gentle, to my parody / lampooning of the artsy-fartsy artspeak artist statement crowd. I have no problem whatsoever with John's comment. In fact, under the operational procedure of what's good for goose is good for the gander, I appreciate it and encourage other comments like it. That written, I must admit that I find it difficult to not lampoon the artsy-fartsy artspeak artist statement crowd inasmuch they provide so much fodder for parody. As a recent example, consider this statement from Kevin Abosch - the picture maker who just sold a picture of a potato for $1,000,000.00+USD - wherein he stated that he uses the potato...

“...as a proxy for the ontological study of the human experience ... I see commonalities between humans and potatoes that speak to our relationship as individuals within a collective species ... Generally, the life of a harvested potato is violent and taken for granted.”

OK. Sure. Whatever. But I just can't get by the notion that this statement reads like a script from a Saturday Night skit or a line from a Coen brothers' movie or even a bit from a Monty Python skit. Hell, it might even been an inspiration for a Bob and Ray bit.

And, it's hard to ignore that, for me, there is more than a wee amount of irony, even humor, in the fact that a picture titled Potato # 345 was made by an Irishman.

Consequently, I feel that, on occasion, I must step up to the plate and take the bull by the horns and have at 'em. And, of course, it's meant to be all in good clean fun.

FYI, I am working on an entry which is quite possibly the most difficult entry I have ever attempted inasmuch as I am attempting to explain - for myself and anyone else who might be interested - why I have designated a particular picture (not one of mine) as, perhaps, the most beautiful and intriguing picture I have ever seen.

Stay tuned.

Comments

[John]

Good clean fun indeed.

Perhaps as a take-off of the Budweiser ad Kevin Abosch approached his potential customer and said "This spuds for you"!

What do you suppose Andy Warhol's statement was for the soup can paintings? Maybe he was smarter than Abosch and did not have one?