Spam Art

We all hate spam. Especially, by now, those silly appeals from Mr. What's-His-Name who wishes to join with us in confidence so that he can transfer some gazillion unclaimed dollars from his native country into a US bank, thus making us rich for doing nothing much whatsoever.

Don't you sometimes wish you could take that useless piece of spam and…and…make something beautiful from it!

This is precisely what Marian Bantjes has done with a drawing she made. As she says about the work, called "Spam One":

This drawing was made for the centerfold of the Vancouver Review, and is created verbatim from a spam email (you know the kind).

It's lovely to behold, and it seems so right.

I might point out that I saw this drawing because of a new-to-me blog carnival called "Cabinet of Curiosities".

Posted on June 5, 2008 at 19.01 by jns · Permalink
In: All, Music & Art

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  1. Written by S.W. Anderson
    on Friday, 6 June 2008 at 00.01
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    That's something, all right. A very creative turn.

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