tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6564390230838094726.post-47386323592316573452007-03-26T06:19:00.000-07:002007-05-26T06:45:47.171-07:00<a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_s3B1ICCq6uY/Rlg5-iJNwEI/AAAAAAAAABg/3mPiiBHnA0U/s1600-h/IMG_8703.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068865127085621314" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_s3B1ICCq6uY/Rlg5-iJNwEI/AAAAAAAAABg/3mPiiBHnA0U/s400/IMG_8703.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><div>So our building got vandalized yesterday. Which is a good thing, really. All that hard work to dress up our lobby with ultra-modern San Francisco hyper-chic design, and we all started thinking that we lived in a real building with real management in a real classy neighbourhood. Alas, corporate artwork and halogen lightbulbs are only skin deep--all it takes is some sex-hungry vandal to remind us that we live in the ghetto-est building on the planet. I was bringing my laundry down into the basement this morning and then . . .(did I just see what I think I saw?) a PENIS! And not just a penis, but a penis in action, which is not an easy thing to draw. The anonymous artist used mixed media--what I assume to be magic marker (in the elevator), and then for this larger work, shaving cream. The work carries a striking Keith Haring sensibility and frightens the viewer (by its ominous size) but equally delights for its subjective snapshot of male sexual bliss and the creative metaphor of semen=shaving cream. The model seems to have been a circumsized gentleman, and the off-red background is yet another (un)intentional perfection of the artist's execution. Bravo to the daring artist, whoever he or she may be. Best of all is that this spontaneous expression occurred on a weekend, right during a LEASING EXPO. Regardless, it took Carmel Partners two days to remove the offensive material, by which time we residents already felt humiliated, scandalized and thoroughly ghetto-ized. (You can see that one resident attempted to erase the right testicle, only to abandon the project: <em>coitus interruptus</em>). You'd think a clever CP authority would have left the artwork unharmed, seeing a market advantage in all this. This is Dupont! GAY, GAY, GAY! Given a choice between leasing two apartments, I always choose the one with penis.</div>TENANThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04022209728181290033noreply@blogger.com