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Art? Or Insanity?

Farmgirl_dk’s photo essays are truly seminal works.  They meld the grounded sensibility of early American agricultural pragmatism with a fluxus-like self-referential juxtaposition of the every day object as paradigm violating attack on our preconceived notions of art.

The “eggs” are small.  The “eggs” are large.  Which is it?  Who are we to believe?  Are we the egg?  Is the artist representing her own reproductive power bursting forth from the “chicken” of her new found identity?  Are they modes of creativity– some have “no shell” and are “laid right in the poop”.  Is that how she sees her audience’s reception of her work?  Are we, then, the “poop”?  If so, I accept my fecal role willingly and welcome her thematic attempts at producing “a regular size egg with a normal shell on it” knowing her “eggs” will never be “normal”.  God willing.

In homage to her (or is it ‘his’ or ‘their’ for what do we really know about this evasive artist or collective?) work, I submit this, my own pained scream in the night– some “vegetables” that I “picked” and “ate for dinner”.  I leave it to the reader to tease out the complete meaning– but beware presumption.

Why Cabbage?

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