Free Fridge Art Revised

There has been a significant change to the direction in which my proposed free fridge art will take. For awhile now, I have been taking all the flyers that I get stuck on my door, which I have previously just stuck on my fridge, and been stripping them of their magnets and staples, and then cutting the hell out of them until they are in tiny pieces. These pieces I keep in a bag.



I don't really remember what gave me the idea for this, but I plan on taking all of these tiny pieces and making a large colorful mosaic on a piece of white paper I bought and cut to fit exactly underneath my glass kitchen tabletop.



I had to do something similar, though on a much smaller scale, for an art class I took in college when I was studying in Utah. I recreated a picture I had taken of the Sydney Opera House, which I later wound up giving to Alissa for a birthday present since we had gone to said opera house together.

Whatever gave me the idea for this, probably just boredom, once I thought of the idea I knew I would be a total pussy if I didn't at least attempt to do it. So far I have half-filled that bag on my table, and I don't even think I'm half-way through cutting up my flyers. I usually cut them up when I am watching a movie on my computer, or playing poker online or something like that. If I made any point to dedicate time to this, I'm sure I would've finished by now, but I just wind up doing it now and again. I plan to start the actual creation of the mosaic once I am done cutting up the flyers. I may just be setting a goal for myself that I can't reach, but we'll see.

As for the actual design of the mosaic, right now I am leaning towards making a Korean flag, for lack of anything better to do. The design is simple, using only red, white, blue, and black, but having each aspect of the flag made up of tiny pieces of delivery menus will surely add a whole new dimension to the otherwise straightforward flag.

Thinking about what it will be like when it is finished, I realized that pretty much any piece of art that takes a ridiculous amount of time to create, especially when the creation involves hours of a repetitive mind-numbing procedure, is impressive and admirable simply for the fact that some human or group of humans put such effort and time into menial and dull groundwork for the sake of turning mountains worth of that very dull groundwork into something exceptional and remarkable. John Funchion's hollow ball of hundreds of sanded woodscraps comes to mind. All the stuff that Yayoi Kusama made with thousands of dots comes to mind too.



I learned about her from a program I watched on TV in a minbak on Jeju-do during the first night of my cycling trip there. That was during the short time between cycling and and conking out. I'm sure there is an endless amount of other examples to this sort of art. I don't know if there is a term for it. Maybe obsessive, or accumulative, or OCD art. Those all seem like they would fit. I think it's the artistic equivalent of turning lead to gold.