Toilet Seats as Art. Well, Why Not?
Tuesday August 26, 2008
Lucas, Kansas is holding The Great Toilet Seat Art Show and Silent Auction to raise funds to construct a public restroom. Now, before anyone says anything snarky like "We're not in Kansas, Toto," or "Art doesn't happen east of the Hudson River," I want to point out that this will be no ordinary public restroom. And Lucas is a pretty darned cool little town. With a population of well under 500, it still manages to boast the Grassroots
Art Center, the description-defying Garden of Eden and sculptor Eric Abraham's Flying Pig Studio and Gallery, where the seat art is on display.
But, the public restrooms? A proposed work of art! It's to be called "Bowl Plaza," the facilities will be shaped like toilet tanks and a walkway will resemble a big runaway roll of toilet paper unfurling across the floor. It sounds marvelously eccentric, doesn't it? I want to help publicize this worthy cause (and hope you will do the same) for two reasons. First, because I salute artistic ambitions of every stripe. Second, because I, too, live in a little town. We have few jobs, and few prospects for more jobs but, by gum, we are proud of the art we produce and we do want you all to come see it. Lucas is trying to do a Field of Dreams thing, and I, personally, would drive out of my way to gaze at Bowl Plaza a lot faster than I'd head to a giant ball of twine. Prosperous art lovers everywhere: I very sincerely invite you to bid generously on a toilet seat.
But, the public restrooms? A proposed work of art! It's to be called "Bowl Plaza," the facilities will be shaped like toilet tanks and a walkway will resemble a big runaway roll of toilet paper unfurling across the floor. It sounds marvelously eccentric, doesn't it? I want to help publicize this worthy cause (and hope you will do the same) for two reasons. First, because I salute artistic ambitions of every stripe. Second, because I, too, live in a little town. We have few jobs, and few prospects for more jobs but, by gum, we are proud of the art we produce and we do want you all to come see it. Lucas is trying to do a Field of Dreams thing, and I, personally, would drive out of my way to gaze at Bowl Plaza a lot faster than I'd head to a giant ball of twine. Prosperous art lovers everywhere: I very sincerely invite you to bid generously on a toilet seat.
Comments
Well, that is different.
I reside in Lucas, the whole thing is dumb.
Mr. Gaga:
Yes, it IS one of the DUMBEST things I have ever heard of. But, then, wasn’t Mr. Marconi, Mr. H. Ford, Mr. Crapper (he invented the flush toilet), Ogg (he was the first one to move into a cave) AND Bill Gates really DUMB? This is great calling this project “DUMB”, ’cause that is the mark of success! When troglodytes and Luddites declair something “DUMB”, then it simply HAS to succeed!
I have lived in big cities most of my life and it is sad to see small town America fade away like and old soldier. ANYTHING to bring life into any small town is to be praised and supported!
Thank you
Otta
Thank *you*, N. Otta Troglodyte. That was the whole point of publicizing Lucas’ improbable project. Some…no…many small towns are dying a slow and painful death. Any innovation, any reason to bring in even a few extra tourism dollars is to be commended.
Mr. Gaga–I hope for only good things for your town. If it is anything like mine, the population is shrinking. There is nothing, really, left to keep the next generation here any longer. Manufacturing has either gone bankrupt or to other states/countries, and tourism fell off a cliff two years ago. We can merely WISH, enviously, that we’d come up with a Bowl Plaza. Heaven help us all.