Every now and then, The Creators Project comes across an artwork that surprises and delights us every bit as much as it confuses us and otherwise has us begging for answers. This is art that defies conventions, challenges sensibilities, and breaks down barriers between comprehension and critique. You might like it—you might not “get it.” But we do. Turn on, take a deep breath, and just remember: It’s art!
For their first edition of Nice Work!, Oregon Arts Watch has uncovered Matt Leavitt’s “DSC5019,” a photograph of a temporary sculpture made out of Lucky Charms rainbow marshmallows. The work was on display from January through February, 2015 at It’s the Last Night on Earth Again (Other People Are Also You), a group show at Surplus Space, which is an alternative exhibition space inside of a small home in Portland.
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“‘DSC5019’ is my documentation of creative playtime with Lucky Charms rainbow marshmallows as a sculptural medium,” Leavitt explains to the Oregon Arts Watch. “It does share several formal qualities with my blob photos: a single isolated material, subject in the very center, fully contained within the frame of the photo.”
Although Leavitt himself states, “Like the photos in the Blobs I Heart series, this photo was not intended to be ‘art’ or to be presented; it was a photographic ‘note to self’ for my own future reference,” we’re going to have to call it the way we see it: definitely art.
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