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Sorry if this makes me sound like uncultured swine, but is this piece a reference to anything? Like did this artist want to do an homage to something else? Or is it just a bunch of random bullshit of varying shades of white placed into a concise pattern?
Perhaps they are trying to draw a parallel between the shape of the candy and the shape of the buttons, saying that the controller is like candy. On the one side they have toys commonly considered to be educational and therefore healthy, on the other side they have things considered to be unhealthy. By putting the controller on the side with the candy, they are stating that it is also unhealthy.
However, aside from being a partition, I don't see how the chargers relate. Perhaps they're supposed to symbolize the rise in personal electronics, and in doing so, effectively compare personal electronics to candy as well? I mean, if the rise of personal electronics created a box, and candy and Wii remotes are in there, then that means it is also stating that personal electronics are unhealthy.
I mean op is a mod so I would hope they are not just trolling.
I wouldn't expect them to, but it would be a hilarious trolling :P
Yeah I have a hard time finding any meaning in this one. White might represent the bleached existence that people want. There m & m s and drugs. A console controller. Maybe that represents the escapism people seek. Legos might be a person trying to piece together life but rather than piece it together they lay it out in rows because it's expected of them? And I have no fucking clue about the power bricks. They paced to face each other so maybe opposition.
It's all over the place though nothing really strikes a meaning or really does much to elicit a feeling. Good art has themes and makes you think. This just feels like bullshit, like someone was just throwing it together and hoping it was art or trying to submit something for a grade.
Looking at other stuff he's done on instagram, he might just like putting things into color patterns that interest him. Living artists are interesting to follow because maybe they are making something meaningful, or maybe they were just messing with colors.
Some of his stuff is obvious referenced art made out of objects, as well, so I might just be oblivious too about this one.
Ya, this is the kind of art that just makes me mad.
I'm getting the sense that the artist took a photo or scene and tried to recreate the shapes with random white items they found. If you squint, you can just almost pretend it's a building on the left hand side with the sky on the right, not sure about the wii controller.
I'm 98% sure it's just white-colored things he had laying around. No deeper meaning.
I like trying to interpret it more than having a solid interpretation.My mind goes to a overhead view of a building and some open field area separated by a road, or maybe s Walmart esque place separated by the road from its parking lot. Or maybe you're down town looking at the skyscrapers before you.I don't know what they wanted to convey, but I like examining what I get out of it.