Siblogiban » Socrates Sculpture Park http://blog.siboliban.org Tue, 17 Aug 2010 23:31:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Left For Dead http://blog.siboliban.org/left-for-dead/ http://blog.siboliban.org/left-for-dead/#comments Wed, 04 Jan 2006 19:00:19 +0000 Bangbay http://blog.siboliban.org/?p=4 Over Thanksgiving holiday, I went to New York and saw the 2005 Emerging Artist Fellowship Exhibition at Socrates Sculpture Park. My friend Margaret Lee had a sculpture in the exhibition. Throughout the park was an exhibit called Left For Dead by David Shapiro. It featured parts of bicycles around steel posts with street signs. I thought it was a clever title and idea, and I haven’t really stopped thinking about it since then. Whenever I used to see bicycle trunks on Manhattan sidewalks, stripped of everything possible except for the Kryptonite lock keeping it locked to the post, I always found it amusing. I used to call them “bike casualties.” They reminded me of images of cattle skulls in the desert.

Left For Dead

In Austin, I haven’t seen “dead” bicycles like these, but I see other dead items and I think to myself, “Now those are left for dead…”

Skull
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