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The Random Image Thread
- Thread starter Herman
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tonyturley
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- Scott Depot, WV, USA
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- Tony
Juggernaut
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- Shanghai, China
- Name
- Larry
Anything you don't know what it is nowadays ... they call it art.
- Location
- Switzerland
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- Matt
Unfortunately, it's a cosmic energy concentrator (no joke, either - it's advertised as such; I read the sign in passing; they charge you for using it).Anything you don't know what it is nowadays ... they call it art.
Extremely random, no doubt ... which reminds me ...
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- Miguel Tejada-Flores
At a local outdoor craft fair for pottery and ceramic sculpture, I couldn't stop staring at a tall cylindrical ceramic bird feeder - in the form of an eccentric face sticking out its tongue. The artist noted my interest, and volunteered to pose next to her sculpture, sticking out her tongue as well.
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- Location
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Name
- Alan
tonyturley
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- Scott Depot, WV, USA
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- Tony
I know I've used the Hmmmmm emoji twice on your pics of this . . . whatever it is. I am totally perplexed as to its form or purpose.
Alf
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- Northeastern Tuscany
Easy answer, Tony. It's one of several objects of local artists who have specialized on woodwork. And as with most art - especially of modern times - you stand there and ask yourself 'what the heck is this?'. There is a nice saying in Germany for such objects where people have difficulties in deciding what it is: "Ist es Kunst oder kann es weg?" (Is it art or can it be trashed?"). And it did happen indeed in one of the German museums that cleaning ladies disposed of one exhibit by Joseph Beuys and thus destroyed it forever.
So no need to be perplexed, Tony, just enjoy as I did surrounding it and taking pics.
Quite often when you ask yourself 'what does the artist want to tell us?' the answer is simply *nothing* ... he just wants to do the same thing we try (and succeed in) as photographers at times, too: providing a completely new and unexpected (surprising) view on things around you.
And btw, when I see your *hmmm* emoji under one of my pics I contentedly lean back knowing I've just achieved that.
- Name
- Miguel Tejada-Flores
Juggernaut
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- Shanghai, China
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- Larry
