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4 comments:
- interesting phenomena - the dog wee, which it appears to be - (please confirm), being positioned centrally within the circles, seemingly startling accuracy of aim and evidence of canine forethought/design. I have already noticed this phenomena - my own hound - the much celebrated 'Rathlin Pride' displays the same tactics - skillfully placing his excrement along the white lines of football pitches and in the centre of flower displays in parks - often opting for 'central open flower placement' - this begs the investigation of 'canine conceptual art'.
i think these, in fact, are something to do with construction or pavement maintenance. the substance appears to be a type of glue or epoxy. puzzling but probably not 'art' at all. this raises interesting point. if we happen not to know that something is 'functional' does it present itself as something more decadent, put there purely for old definition aesthetic reasons, beautiful only. to mimic this activity then turns us into gods too, capable of wasting time on activities which are not appearantly useful. so the seeing of what is now called nature as beautiful may be a hangover from the period before this was better understood. thinking out loud here naturally.
- but function doesn't exclude it from being 'art'. However, I initially percieved it as 'dog wee' which is 'of nature'. This is an old chestnut - at what point does something 'natural' and therefore 'beautiful' become 'not natural' - I think it depends on how you view 'evolution' ( plus many other factors) - at what stage did mankind become 'unnatural'? Was mankind ever natural? At what point does 'nature' stop being nature? Does a rabbit in a field differeniate between a clump of grass and a discarded plastic bag? - apart from the obvious distinction being that the plastic bag will not smell 'of the field' - as in in originating in/from the field. From a human perspective however man cannot live without nature, yet cannot live within nature. Nature in it's truly raw state is 'kitschified' to extract what is necessary for human comfort whilst excluding all that is unacceptable. not entirely sure where this is going...however finding that it is not 'dog wee' doesn't make it any more or less aesthetic, but does mean that 'dog art' is probably not as common as i had hoped. It did seem a bit too good to be true - but not as fantastical as one might think. Certain breeds of dogs are more visually exacting in their placement of wee/excrement than others - why?
Photos to follow soon.
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