Thank goodness---I woke up this morning eager to get going on the proposal. Sometimes (but not always) it goes this way: just when I feel most mired in procrastination, my energy pops back up.
Here are a couple neat pieces of art about garbage:
I. I like this one because of the rag-picker's dogs, who, unlike the woman, look like they're in good health. I suppose they gets lots of juicy garbage to eat?
"Arrested Rag-Pickers in City Hall Park, New York, sketched by C.G. Bush", Harper's Weekly, July 6, 1867
---from the Library of Congress
II. These bits of rulers cast up by the sea are as beautiful in their way as beach glass.
Above: "28 Objects that Measured the World," by artist Steve McPherson
From the Anchorage Museum's exhibit "Gyre: The Plastic Ocean":
"Steve...combines and arranges found objects from his local coast, with a summary text that gives a potential identity and history to the collated flotsam and jetsam."
I love that art piece! But I have a weakness for sea glass and rulers and "objective" art displays like that one, so it's no surprise.
ReplyDeleteJust had insight into two very sheer cotton shirts I haven't been wearing (both from rag bin) because they are already holey--they're supposed to be Fresca bags, for fresca fruits and veggies! :)
JULIA: Success! I chose that "28 Objects" piece because I thought it looked like *your* sort of thing.
ReplyDelete(Of course it's my sort of thing too, but I might have chosen something else from the exhibit if not for hoping you'd see and like this.)
Dog carts, there are even photos of these.
ReplyDeleteI remember on beaches in the Detroit River finding scoured green glass, pop bottles turned into natural art.
Rag and bone men, something lost in living memory.
I wonder if all those rulers were actually lost at sea? Someone is charting their course--and BAM!--a big wave flows over their ship, stealing their ruler?
ReplyDeleteOr do you think it's from people dumping trash in the ocean?
The rag-picker's dogs do look happy. A short, but perhaps, enjoyable life for a dog? After all, what dog doesn't like to root through trash?