Here is a lovely little thing that I’ve been, I suppose meditating on a way to respond to for the past… I’m not sure how long. Anyway, it’s been difficult for me to think of a way to start on this. I’m just going to take a blind leap much like the author did.

i carved into a material
then i superglued it to a piece of wood
& then i carved into the wood & made it shiny XD

Well, you know what you’re looking at, and it is an abstract piece. Some rules have been broken here and in this case not in a way that would make your momma proud of you for being a visionary.

• Center composition
• Poor presentation
• Poor craftsmanship

Center compositions can be okay if you know how to make it work. With most pieces (excluding some particularly avant garde works out there) eye movement is visually the strongest yet underlying aspect of a work. It maintains interest and with a center composition you end up with a static and uninteresting piece since the subject/focus is just presented you. It’s safe to assume that the mystery material of this piece is the subject/focus. Well, honestly there’s no eye movement happening except away from this piece of crap.

Same value through out, same balance, and the lines are a pitiful and personally embarrassing attempt at harnessing attention. Yes, I feel embarrassed to look at this piece. These lines make attempts at visual flow yet lead to empty space causing the eye to lazily move from line to line seeking the answer to the all important question, “Why the hell am I looking at this??”. The awkward gashes placed in the wood speak to me, “I tried gouging at the wood a couple of times and got tired of it so wutev.” They actually appear more like accidental damage than purposeful carves. Yes, you can have a Jackson Pollock, but it still looks purposeful in every drop. This crooked-ass photograph, and the piece placed on leopard-print sheets. And I think that this is just what it comes down to. The artist had no idea what they were doing and they let us know that. One needs to have respect for their own work or at least pretend to take their work seriously to some extent if they expect other people to take it seriously, or even themselves seriously.

I’d like to ask the artist how much thought and time was put into this piece. Did they feel that it was a natural and immediate piece of genius, did they feel that this was something worth calling art? Do they not feel any disappointment or shame for being the one to label this art? I personally feel that if anyone is to call such a thing art they have very poor perception. In general. I feel like I’m going to be critiquing a lot of pieces with a lot of the same problems so I’m going to try to find some more…unique ones as this goes on.