A Second Step in A (The Right??) Direction...

Stream of consciousness here; it's been a while since I made this one. It could have a lot of names - lets see... "ART" (exceedingly obvious), or even "iART", "Torn apart keyboard, with duct tape wrapped round with the word ART on it", Colby (since I was with my friend Colby when this Art came to be), or even "Coffee" - because I spilled a coffee on the keyboard.

HOLY RUN ON SENTENCE!
From now on, I will attempt to use proper grammar.

I think I will call it, "I could have exchanged this fried keyboard, but I was too stupid, and tore it apart and made it into anArt" - or "Warranty". But one of those two work. I'll stick with the ambiguity of titles here.

Who remembers "Zoolander" ? Sure you do! Great movie! Anyways, what I'm trying to get to, while stirring Fandango, is Mugatu's DERELICT campaign. Of course, it was constructed to assasinate the Malaysian Prime Minister - but I digress.

I am coming toap oint in my ramblings.

3, 2, 1...

Does anyone see the coorelation yet? Well, for those of you who have taken your SATs.

Trashbags : Derelict Design
Broken Down Keyboard : ____________.

a) Useless Piece of Hardware
b) A Zord from Mighty Morphing Power Rangers
c) iPod
d) anART

Who guessed it? That's right... the answer is d) anART
But I do promise that (hint) "c) iPod" will come into play in future post.

So trashbags, trash in general - being used to make art. Derelict is clothing design, and anART is not limited to a single form. But in essence, both are repackaging previous meaning, by first breaking it down to it's primative form, and reconstruting into something that perhaps may even have utility... of sorts.

Here's where they differ, at least to me. But I feel that it is simply just this piece, as this is in a sense a mockery of art - perhaps has tones of Dadism, by bringing into question the validity of art, as it must be writting on the front in LARGE CAPITAL LETTERS to make it so. Much like how Marcel DuChamp signed a urinal... making it art. But hey, who am I to compare to MDC?

DuChamp and myself, are not comperable, not even in the same realm. We both had very different approaches, albeit just as simple. anART supports the repacaging of meaning, and reconstruction into something now - that we don't quite understand, by taking it from its broken form, when it was what society might call usess. Bringing into question what exactly has utility in this world if waste can be transformed into art, while maintaing this notion of HYPER-MODERNITY/MODERNISM.

At this point I must note... My friend has this piece up in his home. I believe I can call it art then.

Thank you STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS.

Goodbye. ;)