This Space Intentionally Left Blank

La Fête de l'Opinion CCXIII (September 20, 2005)

(Linkage) Do Not Run, Tasty Children

"The things one finds wandering in a landscape: familiar things and utterly unknown, like a flower one has never seen before, or, as Columbus discovered, an inexplicable continent;
and then, behind a hill, as if knitted by giant grandmothers, lies this vast rabbit, to make you feel as small as a daisy.
The toilet-paper-pink creature lies on its back: a rabbit-mountain like Gulliver in Lilliput. Happy you feel as you climb up along its ears, almost falling into its cavernous mouth, to the belly-summit and look out over the pink woolen landscape of the rabbit's body, a country dropped from the sky;
ears and limbs sneaking into the distance; from its side flowing heart, liver and intestines.
Happily in love you step down the decaying corpse, through the wound, now small like a maggot, over woolen kidney and bowel.
Happy you leave like the larva that gets its wings from an innocent carcass at the roadside.
Such is the happiness which made this rabbit.
i love the rabbit the rabbit loves me."

Ok, so what was that?  Well, it's a press release for an art installation called Hase (translated: Rabbit) that a Viennese art group called Gelatin erected on an Italian mountainside.  It's planned to stay there until 2025, is 200 feet long, taller than a person, and bright pink.  The entire point?  Well, besides being just a random piece of strangeness in the world, the group is also hoping that mountain climbers and hikers will climb on it, and maybe fall asleep on its stomach.

You can find more pictures of it here, and plenty of news stories by googling around.

All in all, I'd have to say that I approve.

Posted by g026r at 13:57
Comments

"toilet-paper-pink"?

They obviously use different toilet paper in Italy.

Siteicon Posted by peterjm at La Fête de l'Opinion CCXIII 16:36 (2005/09/20)

It's obviously toilet paper that's comfortable with its sexuality.

Siteicon Posted by g026r [TypeKey Profile Page] at La Fête de l'Opinion CCXIII 23:27 (2005/09/20) PGP
Post a comment







Past Entries

Past Entries