Tuesday, 12 October 2010

Haiku #286

Faux sunflower seeds -
Tate Modern's hundred million
are all hand painted

16 comments:

  1. Hard to imagine isn't it? Now, the feat would have been if the artist had done then all himself!!

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  2. Sounds like so much work, hours and hours of work.

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  3. I'm with Derek...if he had done them himself I might apreciate the message a bit more, as the message is a good one but not to give him the credit. Oh dear, get down of the horse Geraldine!!

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  4. Sorry Derrick...wrong spelling!

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  5. Do you think someone's going to tell him that he missed a bit?

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  6. Sounds like a good way to give up smoking!

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  7. I want to know how they're going to keep them in place? My first thought on seeing the piece was "When I go I'll just put the one in my pocket" and I reckon the majority are as criminally-minded as me...

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  8. A warm welcome to Poetic Artist and much thanks for all your comments.
    I suppose I could have been very non-P.C. and pointed out that he's Chinese and that there's a lot of cheap labour available in China, but I think we're basically all agreed. I struggled to see the point of a beach load of ceramic sunflower seeds, but apparently it's a reference to Mao Zedong who referred to the Chinese people as sunflowers turning their faces always to the sun - which of course was him.

    Titus, yo would have been a great disappointment to your leader, I think - had you been one of the sunflowers.

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  9. Ooh, I don't think so, Dave...
    Gang of Five?

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  10. Someone suggested that doing a similar thing might solve the unemplyment problem here Dave.

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  11. Titus
    OK. I'm convinced.

    Weaver
    Unemployment? What unemployment? Our glorious nation has no unemployment, just people who can't find jobs.

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  13. Enjoyed your haiku about the Tate Modern installation. Thanks.

    Responded with a haiku called Painted Subterfuge.

    Ceramic seed husks
    Conceptual deception
    Painted subterfuge

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