It is how you stack your cars
I had this strange "artist's nightmare" sort of dream today. I had been commissioned to make an outdoor sculpture for an art museum. They already had quite a few sculptures on their grounds and for whatever reason they wanted me to do one. My idea was i had a slab of concrete to start with and i was going to stack three cars one on top each other (I know, not very original.) So i got some friends together and got started.
We pretty much drove an SUV onto the pad to start with, and we had a small crane to lift some sort of Chevy on top of that, but the third car was giving us problems. I guess because we had to be more careful putting it on the stack or we had to lift it higher but we couldn't get it done. Apparently the next day was an open house where i was to present my work so i was trying to get it done, but couldn't. So i said just leave it and I'd figure something out.
That night i had the inspiration to just leave the two cars stacked and build a frame of a house around them. It would be a play on the american ideal for two cars to a home but then you can't afford anything else for the home, something like that. It looked really cool in my mind. I was even trying to think if i should make the house frame out of steel beams which i would need help with welding or if i should do it out of 2x4 which i know i can do and wood look more like a real house frame, but would not weather outside so well. Anyway, i had worked up a little speech in my head to tell everyone at the opening house the next day on what i would be doing to the two cars to finish my piece.
So the next day i am in the museum and leading a bunch of people out to where my future sculpture will be to explain to them my change of thought and what will become of it. When we get there, someone has somehow stacked 3 more cars on top of my 2. There was a smaller car on top the big Chevy, and a compact car on top of that and then like a mini cooper or something on the very top. The weight of all these cars had almost crushed the SUV flatish, and gave it a visual symmetry of a pyramid that was interesting. And with the smaller cars crushing the SUV, all in all it wasn't too bad of an artistic statement, but i didn't do it.
Everyone started ooing and awwwing and complementing me and i was trying to explain that it wasn't my work and that i had just stacked two cars on top each other (which sounds lame) and yeah. so there i was stammering and confused about what had happened.
Before i could figure out who did it and everything i woke up.
Not sure what it means, but i have this strong erge to go stack cars now.
-j-
We pretty much drove an SUV onto the pad to start with, and we had a small crane to lift some sort of Chevy on top of that, but the third car was giving us problems. I guess because we had to be more careful putting it on the stack or we had to lift it higher but we couldn't get it done. Apparently the next day was an open house where i was to present my work so i was trying to get it done, but couldn't. So i said just leave it and I'd figure something out.
That night i had the inspiration to just leave the two cars stacked and build a frame of a house around them. It would be a play on the american ideal for two cars to a home but then you can't afford anything else for the home, something like that. It looked really cool in my mind. I was even trying to think if i should make the house frame out of steel beams which i would need help with welding or if i should do it out of 2x4 which i know i can do and wood look more like a real house frame, but would not weather outside so well. Anyway, i had worked up a little speech in my head to tell everyone at the opening house the next day on what i would be doing to the two cars to finish my piece.
So the next day i am in the museum and leading a bunch of people out to where my future sculpture will be to explain to them my change of thought and what will become of it. When we get there, someone has somehow stacked 3 more cars on top of my 2. There was a smaller car on top the big Chevy, and a compact car on top of that and then like a mini cooper or something on the very top. The weight of all these cars had almost crushed the SUV flatish, and gave it a visual symmetry of a pyramid that was interesting. And with the smaller cars crushing the SUV, all in all it wasn't too bad of an artistic statement, but i didn't do it.
Everyone started ooing and awwwing and complementing me and i was trying to explain that it wasn't my work and that i had just stacked two cars on top each other (which sounds lame) and yeah. so there i was stammering and confused about what had happened.
Before i could figure out who did it and everything i woke up.
Not sure what it means, but i have this strong erge to go stack cars now.
-j-