Contemporary Public Art is Not a Product of Human Consciousness and Psychology

The Manhattan Leg Fountain proves that

It is no secret that public art installations—as well as galleries, especially the smaller regional ones—have been presenting the public with almost nothing but aesthetic absurdities and the grotesque in the guise of what was once beauty and meaningful contemplation for over half a century at least. Now, do not get me wrong, I am not some artistic luddite who wants traditional art and nothing else. I can grasp the conceptualization and meaning behind Hans Hoffman's ‘push and pull’ painting theory, and I have been spellbound by much of Marina Abramovic's output over the years. At the same time, I can be brought to tears by falling into the brushstrokes of a Monet haystack painting at the Boston Museum, or by Oisín Kelly's massive bronze sculpture of The Children of Lir, which was commissioned for the Garden of Remembrance on Dublin's Parnell Square.

Yet at the same time I can see when bullshit is being passed off as public art. Yet here is the thing. It isn't bullshit. It is psychic warfare and a burlesque of Western Civilisation by a level of consciousness that is most certainly alien to this planet at some basic level. Perhaps the most glaring example of the psychopathic ascendancy in the post-World War Two era is not so much the neo-liberal economic model, nor is it the endless wars agenda of the US NeoCons. It is this and public art installations like it. A human did not create this. A human did not commission this. A human could not love or appreciate this and most certainly a human would not want to shove this into the faces of humans and yet here we are.

One more thing. Aside from this Clive Barker-esque level of unspeakable horror meant to be ‘challenging’, is this actually making fun of people who took the Covid Boosters by alluding to the side effects?

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