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Originally posted by Fljotsdale:
Yorick.... shutup!shutup!shutup! [img]tongue.gif[/img]
If I want that sort of 'art', I can just remove everything from one of my rooms and stand there flicking the light on/off!!!! Nobody, but NOBODY! would call it art!
Hey.... I think I might 'write' a book... all blank pages but for the odd page with 'BOO!' written in the top left corner of the right-hand page, where you can easily miss it if you just flick through, so you'll have to look carefully... if it is well-bound it'll make a mint for me....
And just think of the high esteem in which the art world would hold me!
[ 11-12-2001: Message edited by: Fljotsdale ]
Fljotsdale, it is so easy to wind you up. Especially when you're wrong....
Which of course on this matter you are.
If you stood in your room, with the walls blank and switched a light off and on, called it art, and got people to watch you switching a light off and on, it would be performance art.
A woman switching a light off and on.
The fact that it goes off and on automatically and the walls are actually blank, means that the light itself is the art.
Photography and painting are all about capturing the effect of light. Shadows, shades, fragments of the spectrum, reflections.
Here is just the light, no more no less. Appealingly simple. So different would the walls look with the light on than off.
The art takes place in the moments of transition.
It also captures something of life. How many of us have switched a light on and off, only to have a parent chide that it'll blow the fuse. The effect though is tantalising.
Vocalist James Rayne had a music video "Fall of Rome" which had alrernating light shots fast cut together.
Like opening each eye alternately and quickly. Left-right-left-right etc...
I think the work, from your describtion is brilliant. Especially from your reaction.
Your blank book idea is actually quite funny. Monty Python released a record - a collectors item now I believe - that had no sound until the end, when a voice said "you have been ripped off". Laughter followed and that was that.
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[ 11-13-2001: Message edited by: Yorick ]