Cheen Pitney has been very generous with his contributions to Brooklyn is Watching, which we have occasionally poked fun at… (always good-naturedly i hope) they are always technically excellent (nobody disputes that he an excellent craftsman) but sometimes conceptually kinda poppy or predictable. This one I like best of anything he’s done so far and partially just because of where it is– Nebulosus Severine has had a big black box with “de-sexed” in it, which we discussed in podcast #10, for a while floating in the sky and Cheen decided to just use the top of that box as a pedestal for his new monumental steam-punk-ish sculpture of a (Medieval Japanese?) warrior. He kinds feels like he’s conquered the other artist’s work or something, i think its funny. More pics here. I also like how from close up it kind of disolves into steampunky junk, but from a distance it is soooo Ozymandias, the early years– its like time traveling by getting closer.
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Nebulosus had some fun with this sculpture:
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Left by nebulosus.severine on June 1st, 2008