November 22, 2005
"What Part of 'Enough' Don't You Understand?"
by The Tears Of Things
Our three digital net art pieces, which we collectively call It's Not A Rose-Colored World / And Wearing Pink Won't Make It So, are sociological photo-composite documents that capture national and world events of mid-Summer to mid-Fall 2005 as reported by American cable newscasts.
Each piece consist of screenshots in 7 columns with 11 rows. First, Catherine collected little women for Enough With The Pink Already throughout June and July and then little men for What's Good For The Goose . . . from through August to September.
The piece was not supposed to be a triptych. Putting together our little duet was like suffering with an itchy pink rash on top of a bellyache. Jerome caught the pink plague from Catherine, and, two months after finishing What's Good For The Goose . . ., we desperately realized that the funky pink malaise could only be cured with heaping portions of Pepto-Bismol and oceans of Calamine Lotion. One more pink offering was required of us.
And so together, as King & du Bois, we labored through the first three weeks of November to capture the 77 components of a third panel for It's Not A Rose-Colored World / And Wearing Pink Won't Make It So, -- "What Part of 'Enough' Don't You Understand?"
This piece features for men and women, in alternate columns, with a few mixed groups down the middle. Set to the right of the second panel, What's Good For The Goose . . ., we now have a triptych that displays in a Very Silly, Very Sad, and Very Large Array the tragic comedy of our world situation. From the Islamist bombings in London, Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the earthquake in Pakistan, through the Islamist riots in France, with the war on Terror and the insurgent bombings in Baghdad to boot, we have witnessed a surreal parade of early Twentifirst-Century American newscasters as they inappropriately cover themselves with safepink babyblankets and tell us about the woes of the world as if it all was nothing more than a PG rated show that we need to turn off before we settle down for our little naps. . .
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