Posted on 01/04/2006 11:52:23 AM PST by Millee
An artist who chained his legs together to draw a picture of the image hopped 12 hours through the desert after realizing he lost the key and couldn't unlock the restraints, authorities said Wednesday.
Trevor Corneliusien, 26, tightly wrapped and locked a long, thick chain around his bare ankles Tuesday while camping in an abandoned mine shaft about 5 miles north of Baker, San Bernardino County sheriff's Deputy Ryan Ford said.
The Baker-area artist often sketched images inside mines in the Southwest.
When he finished his chain drawing, he realized he would have to seek help in Baker, the deputy said.
"It took him over 12 hours because he had to hop through boulders and sand," Ford said. "He did put on his shoes before hopping."
Corneliusien finally made it to a gas station on the edge of Baker. He called the Sheriff's Department, which sent paramedics and deputies with bolt cutters.
Corneliusien's legs were bruised, but he was otherwise in good health, Ford said. The artist did not have a listed phone number and could not be reached for comment.
And the drawing?
"He brought it down with him," Ford said. "It was a pretty good depiction of how a chain would look wrapped around your legs."
Dollars to donuts that his sexual proclivities have already earned him one.
LOL!
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
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.
***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.
Awesome poetry! I laughed, I wept.
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?
I feel so enlightened.
I wish I could get a print of his work, so I could hang it next to my velvet Elvis.
I had the same thought.
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.'
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