dmcphoto wrote:
Regardless of whether it's art, its placement is destructive to the few wild places we have left in America. I can't blame anyone for taking a photo of it, but cannot condone what the maker of the piece did any more than I could condone the graffiti on rocks at Dead Horse Point or on canyon walls. Even if the graffiti is "artistic", the principle is the same.
100% agree. I can’t even begin to tell you how pissed if I was a number of years ago when I finally made it out to Lake Tahoe at the location with the little island (rock and tree I lake, and found graffiti all over the rock.
I remember a number of years ago when there was a proposed crackdown that was going to happen at USA national parks on photographing with tripods. If they want a crackdown, they should have much harsher consequences to those that deface these sites, instead of on photographers who for the most part leave things the way they find them.
Clicky94 wrote:
Whilst it is a good photograph, surely I can't be the only person to feel that there was no artistic intent involved in placing this piece of scrap metal in what is obviously a very picturesque natural scene.
As similar structures have appeared all around the world this seems to be some of stunt carried out for an as yet unknown reason, but I doubt that art had anything to do with it.
I think share your feelings. It is an idea but it seems to me that modern "art" places too much emphasis on hidden "meaning" of its works. Without surrounding landscape it would be just a pile of shiny junk, without it the surrounding landscape is still a beautiful place. I would expect much more from art piece.
It is also telling how such event can be balooned in todays mass media to seemingly worldwide news, in time when people have many more important things to discuss.
