put one on your nose when walking by something smelly.
Posted by: laura k. on Jul 20, 04 | 6:20 am
You prolly weren't even born, but there was an artist here in Chicago man years ago who did public art with clothespins. It was fun finding them around town.
Posted by:
Tom on Jul 20, 04 | 7:16 am
Yes! i have one of his clothespins. The summer after my freshman year in college, a couple friends and I went to the Tute. He was outside the front selling tshirts and clothespin necklaces. He taught us all about the meaning of his clothespin art... How he chose the clothespin as his subject matter, because people can read their own personal meanings into it. The meaning for hims is what the viewer brings to his art. H was very much an influence on my
potato theories.
He opened up a small shoebox sized container with clothespin necklaces inside for $1.00 each. As I was deciding which one to purchase, he was explaining the criteria that people use when selecting a clothespin necklace. "Some people like their clothespin to be perfect with no flaws. Others like one that is unique and has its own personality. Like this one." He pointed to a clothespin that had a little knot in the wood. So i took that one.
I gladly wore that necklace to all art openings and events for the next few years. I still have it now. I wonder where he is today. And if he's still doing his clothespin art.
Posted by:
spudart on Jul 20, 04 | 7:47 am
Here's a photo of me with the necklace on. I think that is my junior year of college.
Posted by:
spudart on Jul 20, 04 | 7:49 am
Posted by:
spudart on Jul 20, 04 | 7:50 am
More things to use clothespins on in public: barbed wire, chains.
Posted by:
spudart on Jul 20, 04 | 10:15 am
use like 80 clothespins as a border treatment around a stop sign.
or attach the clothespins to one another making a giant clothespin ball.
we have a huge box of plastic forks at work. One day I made a bowling-ball-sized sculpture of the forks intertwined. It sat on the top of the refrigerator for about a week. Someone threw it out. Stupid, boring, no-fun dud!
You made a sculpture out of plastic forks and somebody threw it aways!?!? What the ...? You're right, that is stupid, boring, and no-fun!
Posted by:
Tom on Jul 21, 04 | 11:36 am
next time you need to take a photograph of the fork globe. Did you know that Kristina (moose's and my sister) got her yard forked by some of her students?
Posted by:
spudart on Jul 21, 04 | 11:41 am
What does that mean? Got her yard "forked"? Did she have thousands of forks stuck into her lawn?
Posted by:
Tom on Jul 21, 04 | 12:15 pm
the lawn in front of her apartment is only like four feet by two feet. So there weren't that many forks stuck in the ground.
Posted by:
spudart on Jul 21, 04 | 12:25 pm
one thing i like to do with my friends with clothespins is paint them all different beautiful colors and then write messages of hope and understanding such as "it will work" "the next time say yes" etc...usually we go to public places and pin people when they aren't looking. the fun part is when they go home and discover a secret message just for them. it is a way to be sneaky and giving at the same time. from the few times i've been caught i've been told that the message people have gotten has been perfect for them in their lives-sorta like a sign.
take care, if you feel like it do it in your town and maybe someday i'll pin you!
Posted by: sunni on Aug 02, 05 | 11:12 pm
I just saw a really wonderful piece of clothespin art at breakfast today.
It was at the Peach Cafe in Monrovia, CA.
It was a three dimensional piece that at first looked like thick quills on a sea animal of some sort, as it was 1x2 " and spiraled and segmented with what looked like an open jaw with teeth.
Really sensational. The artist's other works were equally compelling.
O.
Posted by: the Oracle on Dec 30, 05 | 2:18 am
