The Inflatable Turd
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008It never ceased to amaze me how flippantly the term “art” is thrown around. Recently I remember reading about one guy’s art exhibit that featured a bunch of people running around the museum and set intervals. This story, however, takes the turd, I mean cake!
American artist Paul McCarthy’s latest exhibit is a turd of epic proportions. Yes, he created a giant inflatable dog turd. It is claimed that this turd is the size of a house (which rivals some of the ones I’ve found in my daughter’s diaper). Rather unexpectedly the turd took on a life of its own when it decided to break free of the earthly bonds that were holding it at bay.
The turd terrorized the local town and left a path if destruction in its wake knocking down a powerline and destroying windows at a children’s home where it decided to end it’s journey.
Lets hope that the Oscar Wilde aphorism, “Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life” doesn’t ring true here, because I certainly don’t EVER want to see a turd the size of a house.
Good Day.
UPDATE: I found a picture!

