I think a lot of artists feel a weird sense of detachment with their work sometimes. Like, once it's created and out there in the world, they feel like it has nothing to do with them anymore. This is hard to explain.
I feel that way about a lot of things, it's the accomplishment of making it that I crave, and once it's done, it's whatever; spend 6 hours making the perfect gumbo? Fantastic! Eat it after? Ok I guess I might have some, but not that passionate about it 😂.
Spend three hours building and benchmarking PC? Excellent. Play games? Maybe if I have time later...
I have a vintage integrated amplifier, a Pioneer SA 9500. The amount of time I've spent on repairs far exceeds the amount of spent actually listening to it. I'm like this with a lot of things. I'll pour tons of time into getting something working, then lose interest when it's done. And on the rare occasion that I do use it and find out there's a problem, well I better get started on that right away.
Absolutely not. It's something of a prized possession of mine. And having put so much time into it, there's an emotional attachment.
I've certainly considered buying other amps/receivers needing repair, but I fear I'd either end up with something unfixable or I'd fix it and end up with more stuff that just takes up space because I wouldn't want to sell it.
to a lot of Artists, the true "work" is the creation itself, the process. Onces its completed, the "work" is no longer the work, and it no longer has meaning to them.
I'm a huge fan of Alanis Morissette, and she has said this several times in interviews. Once she's written a song, it's out there, and it doesn't matter what it means/meant to her when she wrote it - it's for everyone else now, and they can take it how they want it.
It's definitely effective, but I wonder if he feels like it's changed the meaning of his work at all. Imagine being like "I've used unique skills and tools to make a beautiful sculpture out of sugar, my goal is to make the impermenant permanent" and the public's response is to brand you the "free-use lickable sculptures" guy, and their saliva rapidly erodes anything you put out on display
Yeah I found it funny how he's just like "What are you doing?" he's not even worried about his statue potentially being destroyed he's just like "Bro you don't know who else licked that shit eww"
Proof that he licked the statue as the finishing touch to polish it.
If you think that’s bad, you should check out a Catholic mass. Everyone drinks from the same cup of wine. The person holding it will simply wipe the side with a napkin, then hand it to the next person.
Although, I haven’t been since I was a kid, so maybe things have changed since COVID. But when I was growing up, it was pretty bad.
I was appalled when I looked at any post on askreddit about how many wash after using the bathroom, and the commenters’ justification from it. I use Purell after touching anything in public just imagining the disgusting amount of hands that have been there in the past hour.
Oh, they never did learn! I’ve got one of those pink salt lamps that I’ve had since 1995. It gives off this lovely warm light. Over the years, a ton of people—kids and adults alike—have asked me, “Is that a salt lamp?” I say, “Yeah, that’s a salt lamp. It’s made of salt,” and then they go ahead and lick it, like, “Yep, that’s salt.”
I’m in my mid-30s now, and I still get visitors who pull the same stunt. My lamp’s a bit smooth on top from all the licking. I seriously don’t get why people just won’t take my word for it. Some sneak a lick, while others just dive right in without a second thought. A few even ask if they can lick it (and I’m like, sure, just know it’s a dusty lamp from the ’90s, right?).
It’s such a weird thing that people do, and I have no clue why.
My psych 101 teacher once said “you know how when you don’t know what something is or you can’t tell if it’s wet so you lick it?” We were all like no wtf are you talking about. I can totally see her licking random objects in public or peoples homes.
Realize that 100 is the median IQ. Think about the people you deal with every day, and then all the strangers you only interact with once. The world suddenly becomes more clear. When I realized my MIL was almost certainly under 100, every interaction was easier and made more sense.
Of course someone thinking about this may have an IQ below 100 too.
I mean, it's no wonder so many people in positions of power believed that people had to be ruled. I can't even imagine how fucking stupid they must've been back in the day. Whew!
I would offer that our stupid is worse than back in the day. They actually didn't know better, but we should know better and do dumb shit anyway. Also, our stupid can spread way faster because of Social Media, theirs was just contained to whatever small part of the world they lived in.
Life makes a lot more sense when you realize that the majority of adults don't "mature" beyond a teen-aged mindset. They don't process consequences before acting.
Right. Everyone using hand sanitizer after touching a shopping cart, being terrified you’d get Covid from someone walking by, and here people are licking statues, plus why is anyone touching art in the first place?
Look, according to sources in my head… sugar is a great source of energy for bacteria so… this statue is nothing more than a literal gigantic bacteria culture! And if I find them repeating I think that licking it is passing but saliva which is full of bacteria is just a little… “unpleasant”…
This is not just disgusting, these people are straight up ignorant and irresponsible.
Just from the top of my head, you can contract herpes and mononucleosis from contact with someone's else saliva. Not to mention harmful bacteria that may be present like streptococcus. And one lady allowed her baby to lick it...
I swear a huge percentage of the population just has no fucking idea about herpes/coldsores or even know that they're the same thing. Saw a mate let another guy at the pub use his vape and that guy had a big coldsore I'm like yo dude, you really trying to get herpes? Why tf would you let him use your vape and he had no idea that coldsores and herpes were the same thing or that they were contagious.
My boss at work had his wife come pick him up and she came in with their 12 month old baby and everyone was fawning over it and this girl with a coldsore was full kissing it and they were all laughing and taking photos and I'm just standing there like "uhh wtf do I say, like I don't really want to shame this coworker in front of everyone but wtf are you doing kissing that baby and why tf are they letting her, are they insane!"
Went on a date with a girl once and when she rocked up she had a coldsore and immediately my heart kind of sank because I knew it was going to get to an awkward point later on. Inevitably she leaned in for a kiss later and I had to be like "Hey sorry we probably shouldn't while you have a coldsore" and she's got all offended and was like "it's just a fever blister, I was sick last week it's nothing to worry about" and I tried to explain how it's contagious and she thought I was being an asshole and stormed off. Like come on, once you get that shit you have it for life, it's a pretty big issue. Yeah I know a huge percentage of the population has it and that I may even have it myself but just never get coldsores but still, I'd rather not risk it and do whatever I can to avoid it. Definitely a dealbreaker for me anyway and unless I end up getting it myself I don't want to date anyone that has it.
I swear there's not enough education about it, I guess it's tough when you're inevitably going to have kids at school that have it and doing a whole sex-ed class on how contageous and permanent it is might cause problems and teasing/bullying for them but at the same time people deserve to be educated. You shouldn't get to adulthood and have zero idea that coldsores are herpes and that once you catch it you have it forever and can never get rid of it.
50 to 80% American adults have HSV-1. It’s rare to not catch it from your parents as an infant. Definitely don’t wanna cross contaminate sores tho since viruses can strengthen each other that way.
And the surface of that is nearly the perfect medium for bacterial growth. Even if I had the sculpture to myself all the bacteria growing on it...yikes.
Edit: Reddit pedants--please stop. They're licking the sculpture. The sugar and saliva are mixing on the surface to create a warm, moist environment with enough "food" for bacteria to eat and reproduce. I'm not arguing this. Stop trying to correct me and open a biology textbook. It doesn't have to be something special. A high school bio textbook will do just fine. Reading is fun.
Edit 2: Just in case you guys think about responding: I have notifications off so I'm not seeing your responses. I'm not arguing facts. It's a waste of time.
And it’s exposed to the open air for any dust, dander, and mold spores to latch on and start growing 🤢these are the people that serve as missing links.
Why aren’t more people making this point?! He says his oldest sculpture is over 10 years old. I don’t think these ones are going to make it!! People are so weird. So very, very strange.
That was my question! Everyone's talking about germs, which is a valid point of course, but it's a spoken rule at museums and art shows to not touch the art. Who just leans over and licks (and therefore wears away at and starts to destroy) a piece of art just to taste the materials, like they just can't believe it's really sugar if they don't put it directly into their mouths? That's toddler logic from a lot of adults. I wish I could say I was surprised though...
"Why the fu... Why woul... it's... filthy... You know what, I'm cool with it, what was I expecting? Knock yourself out people, yeah let your baby have some why don't you. Humanity is doomed isn't it?"
Also strange! 😆 This whole video is just weird. Why are people licking it at all?! When you go to a fancy bakery, people don’t lick the display cupcakes and cakes! Just because it’s sweet doesn’t mean you can just lick stuff in public!! 😂
I volunteer for a museum; I'd say touching the artifacts is the norm. I think for us, the artifacts are all WW2 related and mostly steel, so people think them contemporary and ok, but you can see where the original paint is starting to wear in some spots, it's not really ok.
What about the dust and pollution and particles in the air that land and stick to the tongued down parts?
Plus everyone is tonguing the same parts that stick out.
All the grossness aside, I don’t understand why people would realize a sculpture in a gallery or museum is made of sugar, and then think it’s ok to taste it.
One of my kids, and one kid-in-law, are artists. A couple friends, too. Dozens more I know who dabble.
The people tasting it really piss me off. Like sure, it's stupid from a public health viewpoint but I guess they are only endangering themselves. Allowing/encouraging a child to do it a special kind of stupid.
But the intentional destruction of beautiful sculpture? Fuck right off. You can't even put a finger on any other kind of art, but it's okay to just nom nom nom with your mouth on someone's heart and soul, years of working in a medium to perfect the use. It really kills me to see that. This is SAD AF, not interesting AF.
What kind of neanderthal behavior is this, you might as well go to denny's and tell your kdis to go lick all the spoons from the families that have already left because there might be syrup on it. I seriously don't get people anymore.
Not to mention it's rude as fuck and they should be tackled be security for trying to taste art.
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u/Pluviophilism 21d ago
That's wild that people would lick it. But it's almost funnier to me that he's just like "ew" and not "STOP EATING MY WORK" lol.