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This project is inspired by both Style Wars and a "missing dog" post that could have been found throughout the school of art in the past 2-3 months. It's not that I don't like dogs, I love dogs and think that everyone of them needs a home, but it was the post throughout the school that concerned me, or yet amused me. It's perfectly straight and illuminated face, set in front of a sunburst Arizona sunset all seemed so odd to me. Maybe a sidewalk could have been better, something a little more about the dog and not about an alternate story that my mind might make up. It looked like a Wes Anderson movie still or something. Though the posting could have been completely legitemate, my experience led me to believe otherwise.
Throughout my time growing up as a young adult, it has been hard for me to understand that everyone in the world has their own concerns, their own dreams, their own possessions of whom they care about that no one else does. I just always thought it confusing that if you saw a homeless person on the street, why wouldn't someone give him a home? It was hard for me, and it still troubles me. I find a great deal of irony in the push and pull of what is and isn't appropriate.
In posting my missing chap-stick to craigslist I am not only addressing my reaction to both the world around me and their own concerns, but also of my own life. (My possessions, my car, my life, maybe even if I had a dog(but I don't) etc). In creating a completely hyperbolic situation, I'm attempting to break the social construct of what is and isn't appropriate. (Who would in real life post a missing chapstick... I know I lose them all the time, I usually just buy another one) Like my reaction to the posting of the missing dog, I hope to have the viewer find the missing chap-stick to be odd, ironic and maybe even amusing. All in all, I would like to point out the irony of it all and that there is, generally, something wrong with how we view ourselves and the world around us, I included.
Here is the post: http://orangecounty.craigslist.org/com/2408397297.html
I love it. Did you get any emails? NO really, it is great way to think about tagging a scene, and what these messages of concern are. I loved that you used the internet too. The project makes me think about reality tv, actually, how mundane and trivial stuff is, yet their audience is all caught up in it. Just because it is up on a public space (ie tv, craigslist), doesn't mean there is a value there... the chapstick is a simple reminder of this.
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