Media: Photography, Planned print on Mylar.
Size: 10'x 2'
I ocassionaly find Irony by happen chance in my pieces. This was one of them. The rare opportunity proposed itself to me while wtaching a movie one day. I was given the task of doing a site specific project. I alsways liek to get a laugh out of my pieces, but this one takes the cake. I had been racking my brain on where and what to do for my project for weeks. Has anyone ever seen Billy Madison? There is a part in the movie where Billy (Adam Sandler) goes around lighting bags of dog shit on fire on peoples front porches and then rings the doorbell and runs away. While the unsuspecting victim stomps out the flames and inevitably ends up with dog shit on there feet. It's hilarious. Well I chose to do the same thing at a firestation though. Not just any firestation one that had jsut been vacated by the fire dapartment respondeing to the fire. And no I did not makea prank phone call. So anyone I was having a beer down the street waitign for this to happen and it did so I ran myself down the street and lit this bag of dog shit on fire. Knocked on the door of a firestation that was empty and ran away. Was I ever there? Who put out the fire? What happened after that? Was there een a real fire? or eve na bag of shit? was there even a bag? I took this notion of secrecy and manipulation from Yves Klein. He did a piece called "Leap in to the Void". Did he ever do this? Who saw him? My response...just as his was...ask the Photographer or the people watching. They remain anonymous :)
Sources
Movie: Billy Madison
Photograph: Yves Klein- Leap in to the Void 1960
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