Wednesday, June 3, 2009

This is not a urinal.

Text and photocopy pasted on wall by street artist ELBOW-TOE.

A little explanation of the piece for those that are curious. There is a guy in this neighborhood that goes around with chalk marking spots not as urinals of critiquing graffiti. 

It got me thinking.

This piece is basically a mashup of Duchamp's Fountain and Magritte's Ceci n'est pas une pipe, two pieces that question the relation of signs to their designata. 

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