Kent Rogowski’s Inside-Out Teddy Bear Portraits
Artist Kent Rogowski takes teddy bears, turns them inside out, re-stuffs them, and then photographs the results.
His artist statement is a bit much: “They are at once hideous yet cuddly, disturbing yet endearing, absurd yet adorable, while offering a metaphor for us all to consider. These bears, which have lived and loved and lost as much as their owners, have suffered and endured through it all. It is by virtue of revealing their inner core might we better understand our own.” But the portraits themselves are worth a look.
I’ve been meaning to ask…how do you get your text to wrap around your images on these posts? Is it a plugin, some WP setting about which I don’t know, or some custom ninja work?
said Daniel
at 10:21am on Wednesday
Just some CSS:
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More info on floating elements with CSS.
said Joshua
Cool, thanks. Just one more reason why this database guy needs to learn more CSS/HTML/etc.
said Daniel
at 11:15am on Wednesday
I get pretty bored/annoyed by lofty artist statements. This guy’s artist statement should be something more like: “I thought inside-out stuffed animals would look awesome…turns out I was right, maybe.”
said Jeff
at 11:57am on Wednesday
Emphasis added for more pun-ny.
said Joshua
Ditto Jeff… I have yet to read an artist’s statement that was not a bit much.
said Dwayne
at 12:59pm on Wednesday
a good half of my college art courses were on the vernacular of a fine artist (which is just pseudo-intellectual babble)
said Paul
at 3:22pm on Wednesday
I had a friend of mine, a painter and print maker, once explain that such bombast is used for the sake of selling.
I don’t think that makes it any better, but I do understand why a working artist might be tempted to inflate their descriptions for the sake of income. Of course, it does presume much of the spectator and/or buyers – that they are people interested in appearing cultural, and in so doing seek out those works which appear most intellectual. Then everybody can discuss – in a similar vein as literary criticism – in the same high-flying language, and everybody can feel important about themselves and their understanding of art.
I’m probably assuming too much myself, of course, so feel free to hit the salt lick for every word of mine you read.
said Daniel
at 4:06pm on Wednesday