Art imitating life
I just read from a CNN report that there's some artist who jumped off from a 5 story building more than 30 times, trying to recreate jumping from the Twin Towers on 9/11. According to him, he was distraught just as most of the world was when watching it years ago on the news...and this was his response.
Another example of another man's art is....etc etc.
Me personally? I think it's tacky. Sure, it's ok to be different at times, and art is always a matter of opinion. One's art is another's trash or tactless visualization. But I guess that's part of the territory in these United States...to be able to express what you think or feel without oppression.
But then again, next time, paint a fucking picture just like everyone else. It's not like Titanic when that one dude jumped off and hit the propeller. We sat eyes glued to the TVs as those folks knew they had no choice, that it was their last moment in life, some of them were husband and wife holding hands, and preferred to jump rather than to stay in a burning building. They didn't have safety nets or wires. They didn't jump off to make a statement. Distraught? No, i don't think there's a word to describe what went through their minds.
And I hope to God no one has to ever have that thought go through their minds ever again. I know one thing's for sure. I bet none of them said "Hey, take a picture of this. It's art." Oh, and the best? He calls walking/falling a metaphor. Walking, ya take a step, fall, and catch yourself with the next step. Yeah, in the grand scheme of things, America fell on Sept. 11th, 2001, and we caught ourselves and taking steps again. But to compare their falling with this... Man, I'm just glad no one was distraught that planes were going to hit a building and fucked up enough to do it again and call it art.
Artist leaps off museum roof to recall 9/11 horror - Source CNN.com
CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- A performance artist wearing safety harnesses jumped repeatedly from a museum roof to create photographs that recall scenes from the World Trade Center attack, but his spectacle was scorned by some onlookers and victims' relatives.
Collaborating photographers snapped away as Kerry Skarbakka fell more than 30 times from the five-story Museum of Contemporary Art on Tuesday. The photographs will be retouched to erase the pulleys and wires that kept Skarbakka from hitting the pavement.
Skarbakka, 34, said he started thinking about falling after watching on television as workers jumped to their deaths from the twin towers on September 11, 2001.
"I was so distraught, I needed some way to find an artistic response," he told the Chicago Sun-Times. Now, he says he sees falling as a metaphor for life.
"Mentally, physically and emotionally, from day to day, we fall. Even walking is falling: You take a step, fall and catch yourself," he said.
Skarbakka, who lives in New York and was named by ArtReview magazine last fall as an outstanding young photographer, has exhibited similar images of previous jumps.
His antics on Tuesday attracted a crowd of gawkers, who became sidewalk critics.
"It was fabulous," said Darlene Schuff, 56. "I just wanted to be a part of it. It's a happening." Others in the crowd said Skarbakka's effort was too staged to have meaning.
In New York, Mayor Michael Bloomberg called it "nauseatingly offensive," and some who lost family and friends at the trade center agreed.
"What kind of a sick individual is he? Tell him to go jump off the Empire State Building and see how it feels," Rosemarie Giallombardo, whose son Paul Salvio died in the terrorist attack, told the (New York) Daily News. "He's an artist? Go paint a bowl of fruit or something."
Another example of another man's art is....etc etc.
Me personally? I think it's tacky. Sure, it's ok to be different at times, and art is always a matter of opinion. One's art is another's trash or tactless visualization. But I guess that's part of the territory in these United States...to be able to express what you think or feel without oppression.
But then again, next time, paint a fucking picture just like everyone else. It's not like Titanic when that one dude jumped off and hit the propeller. We sat eyes glued to the TVs as those folks knew they had no choice, that it was their last moment in life, some of them were husband and wife holding hands, and preferred to jump rather than to stay in a burning building. They didn't have safety nets or wires. They didn't jump off to make a statement. Distraught? No, i don't think there's a word to describe what went through their minds.
And I hope to God no one has to ever have that thought go through their minds ever again. I know one thing's for sure. I bet none of them said "Hey, take a picture of this. It's art." Oh, and the best? He calls walking/falling a metaphor. Walking, ya take a step, fall, and catch yourself with the next step. Yeah, in the grand scheme of things, America fell on Sept. 11th, 2001, and we caught ourselves and taking steps again. But to compare their falling with this... Man, I'm just glad no one was distraught that planes were going to hit a building and fucked up enough to do it again and call it art.
Artist leaps off museum roof to recall 9/11 horror - Source CNN.com
CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- A performance artist wearing safety harnesses jumped repeatedly from a museum roof to create photographs that recall scenes from the World Trade Center attack, but his spectacle was scorned by some onlookers and victims' relatives.
Collaborating photographers snapped away as Kerry Skarbakka fell more than 30 times from the five-story Museum of Contemporary Art on Tuesday. The photographs will be retouched to erase the pulleys and wires that kept Skarbakka from hitting the pavement.
Skarbakka, 34, said he started thinking about falling after watching on television as workers jumped to their deaths from the twin towers on September 11, 2001.
"I was so distraught, I needed some way to find an artistic response," he told the Chicago Sun-Times. Now, he says he sees falling as a metaphor for life.
"Mentally, physically and emotionally, from day to day, we fall. Even walking is falling: You take a step, fall and catch yourself," he said.
Skarbakka, who lives in New York and was named by ArtReview magazine last fall as an outstanding young photographer, has exhibited similar images of previous jumps.
His antics on Tuesday attracted a crowd of gawkers, who became sidewalk critics.
"It was fabulous," said Darlene Schuff, 56. "I just wanted to be a part of it. It's a happening." Others in the crowd said Skarbakka's effort was too staged to have meaning.
In New York, Mayor Michael Bloomberg called it "nauseatingly offensive," and some who lost family and friends at the trade center agreed.
"What kind of a sick individual is he? Tell him to go jump off the Empire State Building and see how it feels," Rosemarie Giallombardo, whose son Paul Salvio died in the terrorist attack, told the (New York) Daily News. "He's an artist? Go paint a bowl of fruit or something."
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