Artifacts of Regret

Anyone who’s named after a car is automatically brilliant, but in the case of Andy Holden, doubly so because when he was a kid, he nicked a little bit of rock from the pyramids, and was so consumed with remorse that when he grew up, he made a giant woolen version of it to say sorry.

The Gods appreciate that sort of thing. The Gods have a sense of humour. Possibly too much humour in fact… but do you honestly think they want you to be standing in rows and eating biscuits or whatever? Waving sticks and singing and chanting, wearing funny little wooden hats?

Get a grip. Of course they don’t. They want you to self-express on a massive scale… so they can go “Woah Dude… Zeus man – look at what this one did. LOL. Let’s let him win a car”

There’s various other things he’s done scattered about the internet… but they all seem to suffer from one of my main bug-bears… and that is, Artist’s not understanding the web. Or the NLP-oid human relationship with simulacra of actual reality:

THE FUCKING PICTURES AREN’T BIG ENOUGH

There’s this other thing he did called “Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will”

which is a series of plates, at least one of which has Charlie Brown on it – you can’t tell what’s on the other ones because the pictures are too small.

I think they’re made out of melted 78 RPM records – our new frontier being the ruins of the unsustainable.

I wonder if either the record makers or the Peanut’s estate will attempt to sue. Probably not. Still, you never know… best not even try to use recycled culture eh? It might be illegal – and the mere process of being sued is enough to ruin your life and destroy your business (like VEOH recently – they got sued by a monster, and they won – but the fight killed them. Where’s the justice in that? It should have been their assailants (WMG) who went out of business. Seriously)

I like some of Andy’s stuff – like the claw-grabber (with knitted rocks).

He also made this great big spherical thing (called 3rd Attempt) – which is a sort of shelter for sheep, who are also woolen.