Homemade ornaments

[wannaduacentury]

I'll take that as a compliment, thanks!
I too was rather grossed out by the feminine pad exhibition- yet I was also intrigued by it's idea and message and overall I don't mind getting a bit grossed out if it results in my being able to consider things in new ways that challenge my entrenched perceptions.

Like good literature, music, film, and poetry, visual art comes in many forms- it can be beautiful, thought provoking, disturbing, uplifting, spiritual, angry, funny, serene, shocking, heartwarming, grief-stricken, or combinations of those and other things. Distilled to its simplest equation, it makes us feel and makes us think, one way or another.

Lisa, A few years ago, I saw in a magazine an art exhibit in NY that showed "period panties" as art. Women saved their yucky drawers for art, similiar to the one you saw. I wouldn't air my dirty laundry though, but you're right, that artist thought "outside the box" on that one. Jenn

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Lisa, A few years ago, I saw in a magazine an art exhibit in NY that showed "period panties" as art. Women saved their yucky drawers for art, similiar to the one you saw. I wouldn't air my dirty laundry though, but you're right, that artist thought "outside the box" on that one. Jenn

Oh, those naughty urban guerilla girls!
Though I must say, once this kind of exhibit has broken new ground and been done once or twice, ensuing variations on it seem like somewhat weak attempts to get noticed. It seems to me just a bit too easy to use taboo underwear/secretion artifacts simply displayed "as is" as a way to get the general public's knickers in a knot. Talk about Found Art.

Are we still on subject for this thread? Aren't tampon xmas ornaments sort of in the same genre?

[Mr. Bloom]

Would all this be considered the purest form of "folk art"??