He spent his life (50 years) making this.. I think the audience are those are willing to pay ridiculous prices for "high contemporary art".
If you don't regularly buy paintings for 100k+, I don't think this is for us :)
If you don't regularly buy paintings for 100k+, I don't think this is for us :)
99% of us will live un-noteworthy lives and then die. This man has built something that will be inviting thought and discussion for potentially hundreds of years.
Humans have always built monuments. Should the Hopewell peoples have not built their burial mounds because there were more productive things for them to do?
If you don't understand this piece (and I sure don't), that's fine. I just think it's a pretty callous thing to dismiss someone's life passion as "jacking off in the desert."
You jack off machines and they don't even give you a reach-around.
LOL, agree with the sentiment.