> >The nearest for sure might be >>a) bower birds - but the decoration of the bower arguably is >>utilitarian: no decoration, no mate > >Female bower birds must be great art critics: Birdie Art Povera at the Out >Back Guggy. Bachelor number three has a profound sense of the found object. >His world is not the phenomenological one borne to us by our unified senses >but the discontinuous plurality of all possible worlds and impossible >meanings endlessly photocopied to where it is no longer the same throughout >over time. Rather than trying to adapt the stuff of the dumpster to a single >discourse and reintegrating it to the artists gaze he has appropriated with >the fullness of avian impulses in so far as it relates to the exigencies of >aesthetic reproductive expression and urges manifested by overtly feathered >artists. You go bird!" > >AZ Nah - they just collect blue stuff. Damn nuisance too. Of course, does it matter what the bird or elephant had in its mind, even if it has one.... AndrewF
