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M. Carson Day: Blue/bird/boy
[A popsicle stick upon which a joke is printed]:
鈥淲hat bird is always sad? A bluebird.鈥�
[Crickets.]
blue/bird/boy is an exploration of the moment when the joke fails and becomes poetry 鈥� an experiment in pushing the punchline beyond its ability to maintain a capacity for humor; a scattered denouement that follows delivery when the bottom falls out of the joke and its contents snowball into new compositions, line by line by line. Heavily influenced by the Surrealists, the exhibition represents a series of associative arrivals that collectively form a disjointed visual poem composed of brazen wordplay and authorial ambiguity. As such, the work links a found popsicle stick to Gainsborough鈥檚 The Blue Boy 鈥� by way of a rubber chicken 鈥� tracing one of infinite threads toward an open end, while weaving together fragments of the Western canon, American history, kitsch and the fertile lossiness of art reproduction and translation.
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[A popsicle stick upon which a joke is printed]:
鈥淲hat bird is always sad? A bluebird.鈥�
[Crickets.]
blue/bird/boy is an exploration of the moment when the joke fails and becomes poetry 鈥� an experiment in pushing the punchline beyond its ability to maintain a capacity for humor; a scattered denouement that follows delivery when the bottom falls out of the joke and its contents snowball into new compositions, line by line by line. Heavily influenced by the Surrealists, the exhibition represents a series of associative arrivals that collectively form a disjointed visual poem composed of brazen wordplay and authorial ambiguity. As such, the work links a found popsicle stick to Gainsborough鈥檚 The Blue Boy 鈥� by way of a rubber chicken 鈥� tracing one of infinite threads toward an open end, while weaving together fragments of the Western canon, American history, kitsch and the fertile lossiness of art reproduction and translation.
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