How can you make two months' salary last forever? or, I did it first.
At the end of last year, I made my first attempt at the design of dissent. Unfortunately, I didn’t have $20 million, and had to substitute 6000+ crystals for the real thing. Along with learning I am a glutton for labor intensive punishment, I figured out a bit about process, pattern, light and time.
When I started this sculpture, I was wrestling with my own ideas of art and protest. Now, with Damien Hirst’s skull possibly fetching $98 million, I have to wonder, if it’s really supposed to be about “the little guy”, would I put the piece in a gallery or set it on fire and roll it down West 47th St.?
Like I said, I’m learning and I’m not sure what I’d do. But, I know I would never do this.
“Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.” – John Webster