Saturday, December 26, 2009

McMurdo Alternative Art Gallery ( MAAG) they love their acronyms here!!
















Christmas Night here was the big MAAG show at the CARP Shop ( carpenter shop ), all kinds of assorted pieces that were worked on for months or for minutes in some cases. They apparenty do this every year and it's quite an event, made me miss going to galleries back in Detroit.
Many on the works are made from found and discarded objects since there are no art supply stores down here, people can be very creative in this environment, soem of my favorites pictured above are the Little Meat Cabin ( constructed if beef jerky and slim jims) , Bacon Santa ( the name says it all ), The Life Cycle of a Butterfly ( as represented in dried pasta ), Stll Life with Dead Birds ( probably the closest thing to an actual painting in the show ), and the Bowling ball Pendullum ( using the balls left from the two lane alley they demolished this year, I guess no one felt like resetting the pins by hand after each frame )
Of course there were also inter active displays such as the cardboard box theramin and a wooded playstation race car.. and a bar ( Thank You Jesus )
-B

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