Comments on: Denver Urban Forest http://hughgrahamcreative.com/2007/10/01/denver-urban-forest/ Story and Experience Design Thu, 24 Dec 2009 22:24:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: richwicks http://hughgrahamcreative.com/2007/10/01/denver-urban-forest/comment-page-1/#comment-880 richwicks Tue, 18 Nov 2008 03:23:30 +0000 http://hughgrahamcreative.com/2007/10/01/denver-urban-forest/#comment-880 If a "fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees", you must also conclude that a wise man sees not the same tree a fool sees. This begs the question of who the fool and wise man might be. Take Damien Hirst for example. Large animals in vats of formaldehyde. Had such work been done in Rome, would the Louvre today contain a 2000 year old dead animal in a glass case? If Jackson Pollock splattered paint on a canvas during the Renaissance would the results be in every art history book? Has it taken a world of 6 billion people to produce enough wise men to purchase this artwork, or has it taken 6 billion people to find the unlikely combination of wealth, a fashion victim sense of high culture, and plain good old fashioned foolishness to create this market? It seems to me that the crowning achievement of our age is that even tastelessness has become a high art form right down to pink inflatable bunnies posed in front of mirrors. Ah. Kulture and sophistication, derived from the word "sophism" of course. If a “fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees”, you must also conclude that a wise man sees not the same tree a fool sees.

This begs the question of who the fool and wise man might be.

Take Damien Hirst for example. Large animals in vats of formaldehyde. Had such work been done in Rome, would the Louvre today contain a 2000 year old dead animal in a glass case?

If Jackson Pollock splattered paint on a canvas during the Renaissance would the results be in every art history book?

Has it taken a world of 6 billion people to produce enough wise men to purchase this artwork, or has it taken 6 billion people to find the unlikely combination of wealth, a fashion victim sense of high culture, and plain good old fashioned foolishness to create this market?

It seems to me that the crowning achievement of our age is that even tastelessness has become a high art form right down to pink inflatable bunnies posed in front of mirrors. Ah. Kulture and sophistication, derived from the word “sophism” of course.

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