Happy Birthday Art.
Yesterday I contributed work for a show put together by my friends at Parlour. On a monthly basis, Parlour curates shows utilizing nomadic exhibition spaces that presents weekend-long exhibitions in different homes throughout New York City. The show/party was in celebration of the 1,000,000 birthday of art.
“On January 17, 1963, French Fluxus artist Robert Filliou celebrated the 1,000,000th Birthday of Art, which he determined was born when a sponge was dropped into a bucket of water.”
I made this work fifteen minutes before walking out the door – it felt great to be forced to do something quick and instinctive. I used some expensive last-batch Polaroid SX-70 film which, having gone through a few airport X-Ray machines, has a really low grade palette to it. Not overthought (a theme that runs through my posts on Process) the finished piece installed appears BELOW.
ABOVE is the isolated Polaroid. It really brought me back to fun spontaneous creations of the past.
