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Tuesday, May 09, 2006
The Cow I Didn't Paint
In 2001 Kansas City was one of the earlier cities to host Cow Parade, and I was selected to paint a cow. Back then, even though they started in Switzerland, it never occurred to me that the project would also end up in London and in Dublin. So I went for Celtic Kitsch and produced The Cow of Kells
But I had actually submitted two designs in my application, and the other one was my favoured one, even though it was rejected. This is that application, albeit without the pictures:
From 35'000 feet there's a majesty about a landscape where mankind has imposed its organization. Perfect squares of North America, the patchwork quilt of European fields, either way - dot the pattern with cows and the purity of the geometry is transformed into a living planet.
I left my homeland in Europe in 1999, flying over those continental cowscapes to arrive in Cowtown in the center of that lansdscape. The depiction of squares on a cow reminds me that I, and perhaps all of us, live on the planet Cow.
Continental Cowscape is dedicated to a little boy.
But I had actually submitted two designs in my application, and the other one was my favoured one, even though it was rejected. This is that application, albeit without the pictures:
Continental Cowscape
From 35'000 feet there's a majesty about a landscape where mankind has imposed its organization. Perfect squares of North America, the patchwork quilt of European fields, either way - dot the pattern with cows and the purity of the geometry is transformed into a living planet.
I left my homeland in Europe in 1999, flying over those continental cowscapes to arrive in Cowtown in the center of that lansdscape. The depiction of squares on a cow reminds me that I, and perhaps all of us, live on the planet Cow.
Continental Cowscape is dedicated to a little boy.
And Here's The Stuff I Wrote Earlier:
