YSaturday, March 10, 2007

drop your sword

this is an old photo that i took last year December while in Grahamstown. My Rhodes' friend will know this statue. there is an old myth at Rhodes that says that if you leave Rhodes a virgin this statue will drop his sword. a few years back a group of friends and myself decided we wanted to bring back the spirit of the great Dada movement. we decided that we would do random acts that would leave a mark on society. one of our plans was to decorate this very statue with condoms the night before the first day of exams, so that when people arrived at the hall where this statue is situated they would see our artwork and social comment on the drop your sword myth. we never ever got around to defacing this poor statue- it would have really gone down well with the VC (ha ha) .anyway i really like the compostion of this photo! go go dada

Twistin' at 12:13 am