Art or Bacon?
I think Jay would have loved this tidbit from today's Times:
ENGLAND: ART'S POWER A horrified British burglar who mistook a work of art for a pickled human head not only summoned the police to the home he intended to rob but also renounced his life of crime, Reuters reported yesterday. The "head," afloat in a jar of formaldehyde, was actually some bacon wrapped around a wire frame by Richard Morrison, a conceptual artist who lives near Liverpool. Mr. Morrison, who was not at home at the time, returned to discover that his house had been broken into by both the unidentified burglar and by the police, who battered down his door. Discussing the jarred bacon, Mr. Morrison told The Times of London: "It's obviously a very macabre piece of work, and I suppose at a glance it looks like a head, but I never expected it to get this reaction." He added that he had been told by the police that the experience had prompted the burglar to reform. "He had a crisis of confidence and confessed his crimes to his mother," the artist said.
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Jay had a art piece in his office that was a milk pitcher suspended in time over a flow of milk into a coffee cup.
I don't know who it was, (confess if you read this...you are a genius) took a small piece of wook and wrote "ART" on it. Then every morning he'd place half his bagle on the piece of wood and put it next to the everflowing creamer. It was hilarious. Every day for weeks Jay would toss the bagle and it's stand in the trash, and ever day the culprit would fish it out of the trash and replace it the next day.
Posted by: Eve | August 26, 2003 05:24 PM
And who can forget the life size PaperMache Jay? I almost called the police when I saw that one!
Posted by: Eve | August 26, 2003 05:25 PM