From: Carl Weese (cweese@earthlink.net)
Date: 08/13/02-07:45:31 AM Z
Leslie,
One of the continuing subjects in the artist's work happens to be found
examples of badly done taxidermy. These are carefully photographed and then
presented incongruously with great skill and visual wit. But the "product
link" you're upset by is clearly not presented as artwork at all, it's a
link to a joke picture found elsewhere on the net. The joke page may strike
you as being in bad taste, but to leap from there to saying that torture,
pedophelia and abuse are the subjet matter of the work on the site is simply
ludicrous. Even the picture in question is so clearly fake that no one could
seriously propose that it actually shows an animal being tortured.
---Carl
--
web site with picture galleries
and workshop information at:
http://home.earthlink.net/~cweese/
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>From: LAShively@aol.com
>To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>Subject: Sicko humor as art?
>Date: Mon, Aug 12, 2002, 9:38 PM
>
> List,
>
> I have been a fairly silent member for a couple of years and have greatly
> appreciated all of the knowledge and discussion about alt processes and art.
> But I am greatly disappointed by artists who use torture as a form of humor
> as per the following site's product link:
>
> www.deadcat.ca/
>
> Art is supposed to challenge, but today it seems that a lack of true
> inspiration is rampant in our community and the world, hence many artists
> turn toward shock, sex and torture in producing images.
>
> Pedophelia (sp?) and abuse is most of the news today and stats show that
> animal torture is one step away from molestation, abuse and murder.
>
> Any one up for response?
>
> Best, Leslie Shively
>
>
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