Did you eat the cereal yourself, is the cereal still in the box, or did you get the box from someone else? Everytime I look at one of these cereal boxes with the drawing collaged on it I initially think I'm looking at a diagram of some mineral or protein or fiber that the cereal is supposed to provide the consumer.
They are empty boxes--most of the product packaging is from stuff I've consumed. Although I have to be careful in saying that. I did a piece a few years back with a giant molecule painted on nudes from a cut-apart Playboy "newstand special" and a (female) critic used my quote against me. I think of the molecules more as graffiti than having any literal connection to the product. Although we always want art to have meaning, they're really just a kind of random fuck you (to the packaging, not the viewer).
Hey, I eat that cerial. It's good.Wish mine came with a molecule on it.
I come late but have to state that this is a beautiful piece.
Thanks, drx, and thanks for the Hupel Pupel magazine, I enjoyed it!
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- tom moody 12-01-2005 3:52 am
Did you eat the cereal yourself, is the cereal still in the box, or did you get the box from someone else? Everytime I look at one of these cereal boxes with the drawing collaged on it I initially think I'm looking at a diagram of some mineral or protein or fiber that the cereal is supposed to provide the consumer.
- chrisashley (guest) 12-01-2005 8:33 am
They are empty boxes--most of the product packaging is from stuff I've consumed. Although I have to be careful in saying that. I did a piece a few years back with a giant molecule painted on nudes from a cut-apart Playboy "newstand special" and a (female) critic used my quote against me. I think of the molecules more as graffiti than having any literal connection to the product. Although we always want art to have meaning, they're really just a kind of random fuck you (to the packaging, not the viewer).
- tom moody 12-01-2005 9:33 am
Hey, I eat that cerial. It's good.Wish mine came with a molecule on it.
- joester 12-03-2005 10:42 pm
I come late but have to state that this is a beautiful piece.
- drx (guest) 12-05-2005 12:14 am
Thanks, drx, and thanks for the Hupel Pupel magazine, I enjoyed it!
- tom moody 12-05-2005 10:34 pm