cecil writ >trendiness now has nothing to do with how the thing will look over time. We >are putting 'art' in the paint can so.... I think you have to ignor the idea >of trendiness - what's the message behind a cigar box after all? or a >tupperware container? They are so obvious I need not mention them. >cecil
my point wasn't necessarily the trendy side of it, but more how a paint can is loaded - it's a fairly obvious cliche' when people ask me about my art, they invariably ask me what i paint - when i reply that i do not paint, i'm often faced with a blank stare - 'what? you make art but you don't paint! what do you sculpt then?' !!! cans have been used to package all sorts of novelty items - so i guess there's no difference in putting art in them. but i still thing that a paint can is too specific - over time it still remains a paint can. as far as the effect of accumulating finger prints etc - then that may make the can a piece in its own right - the contents are no longer that necessary, they are certainly not related to the process being undertaken by the ageing of the can. what is the obvious message behind a box? a cigar box even - i may or not contain cigars, i may have contained cigars - winston churchill smoked cigars, and he was a painter, as was his great enemy adolf hitler. see we're back to the painters again! i just think that a paint can is too obvious, and a little twee - but, this after all, is only an opinion cin cin alan
