Etchings vol. I

1st round of etchings.

Phoebe Washburn

Just out of your lecture and wanted to think about what you are saying still. You keep bringing up failing and mistakes. Mentioning process and asinine attempts and conclusions. Someone asked about your grass and if you felt as if your failure motif was disheartening after you had built an entire factory, including assembly lines, flood lamps, computating gizmos, and even 3 paid gardeners. And still to that effect the grass died.

What wasn't mentioned was the concept of failure. What does it mean to fail. Looking at consumerism and your grass as a commodity then doesn't that mean it has a shelf life like any other organic product. How is the time line of your product gauged? Is it by the standards of the consumers use of it? No. Is it by it's longevity to thrive in an unsuitable environment? No. Is it based off of the duration of your exhibit? Yes.

All products have a proposed life measured by external factors. A comparison of shoes to chewing gum illustrates this. However it's the expectations that are placed on these products that could be used to determine your failure motif. Because to say that anything is succeeding is a lie. Everything, is in fact, in some state of degenerative state and your work is fundamentally nothing more than an aesthetically driven, imagery repetitive, temporary rejuvination followed by entropy.

By your standards, within the context of a gallery your work has trouble. It speaks a different language in there. It's as if you are devoid of gravity, perhaps in a vaccuum-tube. But it is succeeding also. Isn't it? Well, it looks beautifully sculptural and what is sculpture but something you bump into when you're stepping back to look at art.

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Fighting car thieves with graffiti

by Terry Poulton

If a picture's worth a thousand words, the images Vancouver's Wasserman + Partners Advertising is adding to the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia's bait car program may deter more car thieves - by helping them visualize the consequences of what they're contemplating.

Meant to tempt crooks into committing crimes of opportunity, bait cars have succeeded in reducing auto theft in BC since 2002. But now the enticement ante has been upped in 15 parking lots in Vancouver and the Lower Mainland with the addition of graffiti art bolstering the message: "Steal a Bait Car. Go to Jail."

Included in the creative executions by Wasserman + Partners, which also handled media buys, are life-size posters on parkade walls showing a sorry-looking thief peering between prison bars; stenciled imagery depicting a would-be robber apprehended by an officer and a police dog; and power-wash floor messages with directional arrows explicitly pointing toward bait cars.

"The urban-influenced format of these very clear, high-profile executions is designed to resonate powerfully with potential thieves, and serve as a deterrent in areas traditionally thought to be beyond the reach of law enforcement," explains agency account supervisor Sean Weller.

Weller adds that the images will likely be added to parking lots with bait car programs in a wider geographical area around Vancouver in the near future.

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