Bed-In
May 13th, 2008 by Gnat
This morning I was thinking of how to seamlessly write about two very unrelated things, yesterday’s earthquake in China and today’s announcement of the death of artist Robert Rauschenberg. For whatever reason I didn’t want to write about one thing without mentioning the other. While mining the internets for information and imagery relating to these two events, I came across the following photos:
Rauschenberg’s Bed (1955)
Chinese woman clears earthquake debris
What can I possibly say to connect the catastrophic deaths of over 10,000 Chinese people with the passing of a famous, elderly Abstract Expressionist turned Pop artist? I guess I can comment on the random nature of beds — how they aren’t really supposed to be art but sometimes are just that, or how they are supposed to be safe but sometimes aren’t that at all.