Gum Head
Aug 24, 2014 20:09:59 #
phil9945
Loc: British Columbia, Canada
Here is an interesting art piece that I saw when I was down-town Vancouver today (normally we try stay away from the down-town core on a hot summer Sunday ... gazillions of tourist ...
Gumhead is a seven-foot tall self-portrait that Douglas Coupland has described as "a gum-based, crowd-sourced, publically interactive, social-sculpture self-portrait." Viewers and passersby are encouraged to apply their own chewed gum to the sculpture so that over the summer months it is transformed, eventually obscuring the artist's face.
I encourage you to download the original and zoom in on the gum ... it's bizarre :) ... enjoy Phil
Gumhead is a seven-foot tall self-portrait that Douglas Coupland has described as "a gum-based, crowd-sourced, publically interactive, social-sculpture self-portrait." Viewers and passersby are encouraged to apply their own chewed gum to the sculpture so that over the summer months it is transformed, eventually obscuring the artist's face.
I encourage you to download the original and zoom in on the gum ... it's bizarre :) ... enjoy Phil
Aug 24, 2014 20:23:43 #
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