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I was moving an old door that's been sitting around the shop for years this weekend, trying to decide whether to toss it, when this conceptual art idea suddenly came to mind. I painted it bright red and mounted it in a clearing in the woods behind the house.
Surprisingly, my wife liked it, so I guess it gets to stay awhile. But, is it art? (or just an old red door in the woods?)
It also serves as a political statement, but in deference to the rules of Letterville, I'll only say that it has something to do with showing Bush the Door.
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I saw some strange TV show where they built a doorway on a city sidewalk & then put up a sign to NOT pass through the doorway (there was plenty of room to go around it) ... they added a hidden camera & based a TV show around that & a number of other wierd psychological observations based on staging other props etc.
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Out through the In door or In throught the Out door?
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Most people won't get it, but I love it. Isn't it nice to have a place(this BB)where people don't think you're ideas are strange and there is probably something wrong with you?
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Thanks, Lotti, but actually I think most people here are strange, and if they're in the sign business there's definitely something wrong with them.
Hey, but I love y'all anyway.........
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Many people would consider that art! Many would purchase just a print of that. heh
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I agree with Robert...enjoy a piece of the pie! Take a quick pic and watch em' sell. I could see a very cool photocollage. I love the contrast...very appealing.
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Well Sonny, art or not, I think that's pretty darn groovy And I'm with Robert, photograph that thing.
Heck, you could do a whole series. Just cart that door around and stick it in all sorts of unexpected places. Like in a lake, or out on a sand dune, or a parking lot, or a meadow ... You could probably compile enough photos to even do a calendar.
I'd buy one.
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Sonny. I like it and would Call that Art. We have a Project Going on here. "Rags over the River" or Something like that. Its being done by Cristo and Jean Claude. Supose to be finished in 2009. Will be interesting. http://www.christojeanneclaude.net/otr.html
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Actually Steve, it invokes different things at different times when I look at it. Feel free to perceive it any way you like. The political line was just a joke.
Bill, Christo's work is cool, but I have no idea why.
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Christo's stuff is pretty cool. An "environmental Artist" that I am fond of is Andy Goldsworthy. I always liked staking up sticks and stones when I was a kid, I unfortunately never thought to make a career out of it
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after you sell a ton of them, just put a flying eyeball on the door and you'll sell a ton more to the low brow crowd. .... heh then pinstripe the heck out of it and....
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The realistic notion that this is the essence of a visual strategy to compromise vibration as it applies to the use of complimentary hues, is and well remain to be negated by the collective junctures of nature and an element of man's coexistence with his environment. In this case the door represents a portal away from nature and into a world devoid of nature; therefore, this coexistence neither implies or cancels our belief in what is real or unreal. Therein lies the mystery that mankind has struggled with throughout history. It is this presentation of mystery that forces us to empathize with our ancestors and their interaction with their environment. Through this the "door" has stood as a symbol of man's protection from a sometimes unforgiving natural world. It stands for strength as an access to and from either an inviting or perilous journey through life. But art it ain't. Hell, man, it's just a red door in the woods...you see 'em all the time!
How's that for some bs.
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It makes me think of Stanley Kubrick's 2001, A Space Odyssey. There was a green door standing out in the middle of nowhere on that film. Anybody remember that? Judy
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I love it, Sonny. To me it give out a feeling of curosity mixed with a little fear of what may lay beyond the door. It's like wondering what the future will bring and will one be brave enough to take a chance and go through the doorway or play it safe and stay at home, not wanting to upset the status quo. On the other hand it makes me think... Thank goodness, a public toilet, I need a...
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Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, TV shows? Narnia? Judy, that big slab (the monolith) in "2001..." was black. Bill you just gave me a headache. How about doing some black and white, Ansel Adams type photos? Actually it's a lot better art than the "art" you posted awhile back (But is it art? You probably won't get over about $10,000,000 for it tho.
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hahahahahahahah!!!!! Good one David...I really needed a laugh today. Ricky may not be laughing though!
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No David, that's U.S. dollars. LOL, I may wind up being a fugitive. That really would suck not being let back into Canada, especially when you consider that we let Cosmic Ray down here on numerous occasions (at my house no less) but if I didn't get more understanding about my side of the matter there ain't a chance that I'd go to court up there. What part of "I've been packing, moving everything I own, loading, driving over 34 of the last 48 hours and I wasn't thinking clearly" don't they understand? I answered the question accurately; the word "vehicle" means a singular vehicle, i.e. "truck". Heck, OJ got away with murder on less.
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