In response to Liz Armstrong’s article “Citizen Ed” in last week’s Reader [June 3], I posted the following letter to Elisa Harkin’s Web site, which is affiliated with Edmar Marszewski, Matt, Heaven and Buddy galleries a few doors down, and Lumpen magazine. Please see their video clips of their black paint vandalism and blog comments at http://the-poop.yayhooray.com/blog/10480/ Ad-Blasters.
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One person’s art is another’s garbage–it’s a matter of opinion. Who are you, God? Who the fuck are you to decide what’s what to the point of destroying someone else’s property and someone else’s hard labor and creativity? This is not your property. You committed a crime; all should be prosecuted and held liable to pay for your actions. As part of the art community and the community in general, I can only hope that you are rejected, and I believe that it is happening as I write this.
Go be a politician and not an artist. And where does politics belong in the art world other than getting people to question everything about the world or a particular subject through great art–not destruction and violence, which your outrage seems to invoke? You want to shove your political views down everyone’s throat like dicktators do in fascist regimes. I suggest you move to a third world country. Supporter of the arts? You’re a rapist of everything art stands for. Yeah, smoke another bowl and actually try to think about it. Let me know when you figure out that you’re the hypocritical assholes.
An artist and owner of the building property in question
