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Photo Caption: (AP Photo/Kevin Rivoli): Artist Jennifer Marsh poses for a portrait in front of her work of art in Syracuse, N.Y., Thursday, May 15, 2008. Marsh took a fifty-year-old abandoned gas station and transformed it into an art exhibit, making a dramatic statement about the world's dependence on oil and the price we pay at the pump. The installation utilizes more than 3,400 colorful panels created by thousands of people from 15 countries and 29 states.
1 posted on 05/19/2008 8:33:19 PM PDT by baa39
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There are panels in burlap, leather, even silk.

Oh sure, just use dead animals and exploited silk worms. Utterly despicable!

2 posted on 05/19/2008 8:38:39 PM PDT by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Democrats spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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I drove by this (former) gas station yesterday.

It’s near the Syracuse University athletic department’s practice field facility.

It’s a station that, as long as I’ve lived here (I lived within three miles of that station since I was in sixth grade, more than 40 years ago, until I left home in the late ‘70’s) didn’t do very much business. I never filled my car there once. I think it’s because the owner didn’t try very hard; his gas was always more expensive than seemed reasonable, and he had no convenience store and his garage always looked disheveled and uninviting. I rarely, if ever, saw a car parked there.

My recollection is that it went out of business sometime after I left home, probably during the ‘80’s.

The station was vacant and unused for years after I returned, in December 1988 (just after the Lockerbie tragedy, which killed more than 20 Syracuse undergraduates, along with hundreds of other innocents).

Now it’s covered with this enormous quilt. It gets rained on. You can’t see a single bit of the building underneath. The sections of the quilt bear odd patterns and incoherent fragmentary worded messages.

It usually seems to have one or two gawkers hanging around, sometimes with cameras.


3 posted on 05/19/2008 8:50:06 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Steely's First Law of the Main Stream Media: if it doesn't advance the agenda, it's not news.)
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...the 50-year-old former Citgo station...

Citgo?

4 posted on 05/19/2008 8:51:42 PM PDT by rabscuttle385 (During the Middle Ages, rats spread bubonic plague. Today, Rats spread the socialist plague.)
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''My teacher told us it's about creating a caring community,'' he said.

Sounds more like it was about creating a big freakin' eyesore.

6 posted on 05/19/2008 8:55:01 PM PDT by SIDENET (Hubba Hubba...)
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Oh yeah, that really improved things. /s

http://tinyurl.com/5gojlj

http://blog.syracuse.com/video/2008/04/international_fiber_collaborat.html


8 posted on 05/19/2008 9:04:25 PM PDT by kcvl
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So the aspiring artist and inspired activist...

I stopped reading right there.

12 posted on 05/20/2008 12:05:59 AM PDT by Looking4Truth (Leave it to some liberal dork to screw things up for the rest of us.)
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What a complete waste of time energy and fabric. She has created an eyesore and shown herself to be a moron. I would be so angry if I had to pass that every day. BTW I am an artist and I have made quilts too, real quilts the kind that go on your bed.


13 posted on 05/20/2008 12:13:49 AM PDT by Ditter
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>>>>Marsh, who is finishing her master of fine arts degree at nearby Syracuse University.<<<<<

She wins the prize for “Best Way to Waste $20,000”


15 posted on 05/20/2008 6:40:39 AM PDT by envisio (If you ain't laughin yet... you ain't seen me naked. 8^O)
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