Artist Chains Feet in Desert, Loses Key

AP ^ | 1/4/06 | Staff

[r9etb]

So close to a Darwin award, so close . . .

Dollars to donuts that his sexual proclivities have already earned him one.

[r9etb]

Burning Manacle.

LOL!

[MinuteGal]

Alone from time to time you'll find me
Too weak to break the chains that bind me
I need these shackles to remind me
I'm just a prisoner of Art

Today the world knows of my hop-hop
And how my chains got a cop chop-chop
Now my art will get 10 grand a pop-pop
I'm just a pri$oner of Art

Leni

[tet68]

Anyone who "camps" in abandoned mines IS a Darwin award
candidate.

Too bad he made it out of the mine, it would have made
for a much more macabe story in ten or twenty years.

[kitkat]

***You can't make this stuff up.***

Um...I'm not so sure you can't. How do we know that the artist didn't do the drawing, unlock the chains, then put them back on a quarter of a mile from the gas station? Gives him GREAT publicity to say he hopped for so many miles because of his art.

[Chanticleer]

Awesome poetry! I laughed, I wept.

[Chanticleer]

I hate to ask a stupid question, but, even if he did want to change his legs so that he could draw a realistic depiction of chained legs, why lock it? I mean, you can't SEE whether or not it is actually locked, can you?

[LexBaird]

I hate to ask a stupid question, but, even if he did want to change his legs so that he could draw a realistic depiction of chained legs, why lock it? I mean, you can't SEE whether or not it is actually locked, can you?

It is obvious that you don't understand true art. How could he depict the existential agony of Man's inhumanity to Man and the crushing burden of Societies bonds, juxtaposed against the rape and despoliation of the pristine landscape by Man's quest for resources without truly EXPERIENCING the angst?

[Chanticleer]

Ahhhh, yes, now I see. Forgive me for being so obtuse.

I feel so enlightened.

I wish I could get a print of his work, so I could hang it next to my velvet Elvis.

[Dante3]

I had the same thought.

[Rembrandt_fan]

I've heard of method acting. This then, I suppose, is method art gone awry. Occasionally, idiot bohemian artist stories like this bob to the surface, but most working artists I know lead quiet, ordinary lives without feeling the need to wrap themselves in chains or cover themselves in excrement. It's like most professions: some doctors are quacks, some lawyers are shysters, some artists are kooks. Which doesn't mean I don't cringe a little inside when I read something like this. As Bugs Bunny would say, 'What a maroon.'