{"id":20975,"date":"2018-08-19T10:31:49","date_gmt":"2018-08-19T17:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=20975"},"modified":"2018-08-19T10:31:49","modified_gmt":"2018-08-19T17:31:49","slug":"the-inevitability-of-piss-shark-in-the-brain-of-somebody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=20975","title":{"rendered":"The Inevitability of Piss Shark in the Brain of Somebody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"frame-outer  alignnone size-full wp-image-21179\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/The-Inevitability-of-Piss-Shark-in-the-Brain-of-Somebody-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21179\" alt=\"The Inevitability of Piss Shark in the Brain of Somebody-2\" src=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/The-Inevitability-of-Piss-Shark-in-the-Brain-of-Somebody-2.jpg\" width=\"415\" height=\"623\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/The-Inevitability-of-Piss-Shark-in-the-Brain-of-Somebody-2.jpg 800w, http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/The-Inevitability-of-Piss-Shark-in-the-Brain-of-Somebody-2-100x150.jpg 100w, http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/The-Inevitability-of-Piss-Shark-in-the-Brain-of-Somebody-2-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/The-Inevitability-of-Piss-Shark-in-the-Brain-of-Somebody-2-682x1024.jpg 682w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>\u2018The Inevitability of Piss Shark in the Brain of Somebody\u2019\u00a0 &#8211; After Andres Serrano, Damien Hirst<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t recall exactly when the idea of marrying these two iconic works of art developed in my mind.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Physical_Impossibility_of_Death_in_the_Mind_of_Someone_Living\">The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living &#8211; Damien Hirst 1991<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Piss_Christ\">Immersion (Piss Christ) &#8211; Andres Serrano &#8211; 1987<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think it was somewhere around the time I read about Damien Hirst&#8217;s &#8216;The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living&#8217; becoming murky and requiring a fresh shark.\u00a0 Both works were and remain controversial, Hirst&#8217;s primarily is questioned as to whether it truly is art and Serrano&#8217;s for its perceived blasphemy.\u00a0 The Hirst work exists as a three dimensional object in the world while the Serrano work is a two dimensional photograph but both spring from conceptual art.<\/p>\n<p>So what is this image that I created then? Maybe a little blasphemy of contemporary art or satire of the actual works and how we perceive them? Ether way I found the idea amusing which is usually good enough for me.<\/p>\n<p>On a technical note, I recorded the image using 35mm Kodak Portra 400 film which I then scanned and then had printed.\u00a0 I created a small print 4&#8243;x6&#8243; to fit the requirements for a miniature print show called &#8216;Compartments&#8217; curated by Latent Image Magazine and held at the Gam Gallery. <a href=\"https:\/\/latentimagezine.com\/compartments\/\">Compartments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And don&#8217;t worry I don&#8217;t need to see a urologist that&#8217;s not urine but its deceptively difficult to create a reasonable facsimile of what was used for &#8216;Piss Christ&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The two other images I created for Compartments.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"frame-outer  alignnone size-full wp-image-21217\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Compartments_010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21217\" alt=\"Compartments_010\" src=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Compartments_010.jpg\" width=\"415\" height=\"623\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Compartments_010.jpg 800w, http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Compartments_010-100x150.jpg 100w, http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Compartments_010-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Compartments_010-682x1024.jpg 682w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> <span class=\"frame-outer  alignnone size-full wp-image-21218\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Compartments_005.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21218\" alt=\"Compartments_005\" src=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Compartments_005.jpg\" width=\"415\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Compartments_005.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Compartments_005-150x100.jpg 150w, http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Compartments_005-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Compartments_005-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018The Inevitability of Piss Shark in the Brain of Somebody\u2019\u00a0 &#8211; After Andres Serrano, Damien Hirst I don&#8217;t recall exactly when the idea of marrying these two iconic works of art developed in my mind. The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living &#8211; Damien Hirst 1991 Immersion (Piss Christ) &#8211; Andres [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20975"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20975"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21279,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20975\/revisions\/21279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}