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theincredibleme1
· 4 years ago
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If you've ever been to Utah this wouldn't surprise you.
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cakelover
· 4 years ago
They can't even spell "trespassing" properly
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guest_
· 4 years ago
While I find this to be... upsetting- I think to a bit of performance art done by Ai Weiwei* and it gives me pause. In 500, 5,000 years- that “property line” stencil would be a cave painting of our time. Archeologists and anthropologists might get excited- a rare relic of writing from a lost period of history when most information was recorded on paper that didn’t survive or digital media that expired centuries before. And... in 2020- we’d be excited to find an ancient marker showing where some ancestor had left their own marker showing their territory. I mean- could this person not have just moved the stencil over to the side a bit and not overlapped the ancient cave art? I would think so. But... I also have to ask how significant this cave drawing was? Was there anything to learn from it or some artistic or other merit than just being... old?
guest_
· 4 years ago
Given enough time everything becomes old. That’s my mention *of Ai Weiwie. Who broke an ancient vase to illustrate some ideas. At some point this vase was a trade item- like an ikea lamp- was it even particularly noteworthy in its day for craftsmanship, or would someone have thrown it in the dumpster like an ikea bed frame they couldn’t sell before they moved and decided it wasn’t worth taking with them?
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guest_
· 4 years ago
And that’s sort of my point- not that ancient things shouldn’t be preserved or that this person shouldn’t have been more careful/thoughtful. It’s that every day, everything we touch has the possibility that one day it will be a valuable antique of a priceless piece of history- but when we see someone paint over a cave blotch or break an ugly old vase- we know that is wrong. But when we walk through our daily lives buying and breaking and abusing cheap excesses of a world of disposable convenience; and the world itself- we don’t seem to feel the same outrage even though we are more or less doing the same- depriving the future.
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