This afternoon, for three hours, two women in white lab-type coats emptied 70 ketchup bottles and quite a few ketchup packets onto a blue tarp in an empty fountain in Madison Square Park.
"Why did you do that?" I asked, anticipating some sort of long-winded artistic, pretentious explanation.
"Because we wanted to," they answered, smiling and laughing, and disposed of the tomato-y corpse in a trash can.
fresh-baked at 05:07 PMTwo hundred and forty dollars worth of ketchup....Awwwwww Yeah!!
Offered by: cmiper on November 22, 2002 7:03 AMwell, if a little girl put the fry there, it's cute.
As long as the artists didn't place the fry intentionally to the side to *getting into long winded artiste modeenhance the statement being made about the angst/ennui of the french fry being excluded from communion with the ketchup.
Offered by: mike on November 22, 2002 2:56 AMokay, so being a condiment artist must be emotionally draining. 'cause would you have the strength to be a starving condiment artist? or would you just totally sell out and eat your own work?
ah, the humanity of it all.
Offered by: julia on November 21, 2002 12:15 PM*reverent silence*
That... is the coolest fucking thing I have ever seen in my life.
Best. Thing. EVER!
Offered by: Eyre ni Rhuth on November 21, 2002 10:46 AMWhat a sad, sad waste of food.
Offered by: aaron on November 21, 2002 10:28 AMMike, take a look at the lower right corner of the center photo.
A little girl (not related to the two women), probably about 4 years old, had french fries, and it may have been from her. Or maybe a guy I saw earlier in the day, trying to "make time" with the two women, who thought he was original by saying something like, "You're going to need a lot of french fries."
Offered by: Jodi on November 21, 2002 5:52 AMWhat? They didn't set a single french fry off to the side just for effect?
Offered by: mike on November 21, 2002 12:58 AMWell....okay, then! Interesting. Of course, people have always questioned the thought behind Christos' art as well.
Offered by: Joan on November 21, 2002 12:47 AMis there any other reason to spread condiments about?
Offered by: ted on November 21, 2002 12:09 AMI'm just glad they didn't do it with catsup.
THAT would have been weird.
Offered by: leo on November 20, 2002 10:12 PMMy wasabi sculpture is laughed at, my puddle of soy sauce is smirked at...I am such a starving condiment artist
Offered by: sally on November 20, 2002 9:09 PMOne could say they went about their condiment art with relish, but that would just be wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong.
Offered by: Tanya on November 20, 2002 6:29 PMI would have squirted mustard on it. Just because I wanted to....
Offered by: lori on November 20, 2002 6:02 PMIt could have been worse. This, for example.
Offered by: Yolanda on November 20, 2002 5:52 PMI♥NY
Offered by: Mad Genius on November 20, 2002 5:46 PMCondiment art is so "misunderstood"...
Offered by: sally on November 20, 2002 5:37 PM
