February 18, 2004
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Man, they can't really be real, can they? Fairly amazing if they are.
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i'd like to know who his "professional chewers' are, since his bio relates that he rarely, if ever, uses gum personally.
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ew!
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That is some remarkable artwork, but I have to wonder how well the portraits will stand up over time. Will the gum crack? Does he put it all under a pane of glass or something like that? Does it stink? Will it? The interface is pretty slick, though; the sounds fit the theme well.
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Pure genius. Tons of room for metaphor and meaning. The "consumption" of "pop" culture. Using saliva to create images of cliche salivation. The fleeting nature of beauty and the instability of the art itself. The compressed, unnatural process of manufacturing the plywood from trees and the manufacturing of unreal pinups based on natural beauty. Good stuff.
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I smell a Post-Doc, Jugger!
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Come on, though, it would have been tons of times better with just a few more levels of zoom... even if it was just an excerpt, I want to see the texture!