Archive for March, 2008

King sized mattresses

I went to an art exhibition that consisted entirely of life sized photographs of old and dirty king sized mattresses. The photographer didn’t do anything to them, he simply took photos of them. When you think about, there isn’t much effort involved.

However. It was pretty brilliant. Art is almost as much new/interesting ideas as it is execution. Who on Earth would think of taking life sized photos of filthy matresses? It was all very Duchamp-esque, a Readymade. Sometimes it irritates me that so little effort can be put into making art, but I only think like that because I try so hard to make all of my work perfect and I put in a lot of effort.

I’m looking for fine art courses, and I might be going to an expo about improving ones art folio- There’s a strange finality about doing these things.

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