September 16, 2003
depending on your frame of mind
So often art and ideas (if there is a difference) are quantified and qualified by their presentation. We judge books by their covers, people by what they wear, what we eat and drink by its container- and often, define art according to how big it is, and if and how it is framed, and depend on its presentation to verify it's worth.
i was walking down the street carrying a frame. the frame was big, and i was holding it by the top edge, and letting it hang off my hand. I had to hold it above my waist so the bottom would drag across the ground. Although, dragging the frame across the street through town might have been just the perfect thing to do to it. The print was mounted, matted, and backed, and it was facing my leg, so the back was showing outward as i headed down the street.
i walked past the bus stop,
and an old man in a red flannel shirt was sitting on the bench.
"What kind of art do you have there?" he said curiously.
i stopped in my tracks.
he had no idea what was showing on the other side. it could have been anything in the 2 dimensional world displayed inside the mat behind the glass. it could have been Picasso, Rothko, Mondrian. it could have been the cover of a cereal box, a reciept from the ATM, a bad love poem written on a spaghetti sauce stained napkin and put through the washing machine. it could have been anything beautiful, ugly, worthless, mundane, or vulgar that has ever existed on a flat plane of space.
But it was in a frame. and it was art.
as it was; it was somewhere between the beautiful and the vulgar, but probabally closest to the worthless. There framed behind the glass inside the white mat was a photograph of a big hairy dirty toilet.
Had it been a 4x6" one hour disposable camera drugstore print, dog eared and taped to the inside of a notebook, what would he have called it? if it was lying on the curb along with the cigarette butts under the bus stop bench , would he pick it up? would he have even looked at it?
I turned the frame around. he sat up and stared at it. Then he laughed.
"i like it." he said after some thought.
"would you hang it on your wall?" i asked, as the definition of art began to twist around and flop like a beached whale in my head.
"No." he replied.
"I would take it to the health department."
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