art and serendipity on a rainy monday night

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poeticdream and i were driving around rockland tonight talking about why i made the logo the way i did on my business card (image to follow once my business card is actually finalized). i said that robert indiana's
LO
VEsculpture was my inspiration. then we drove past it, on Elm street, by the Farnsworth Museum. serendipitously, it's been here for a while

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[cemeterygates]

wow. it's LOVE, it's HATE, it's LOATHE. i adore it!

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i know, isn't it great?

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it says OLATHE too, which is good if you're from kansas, i guess.

[misch]

Actually, the LOVE statue is a Philly thing.

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it is, but it's visiting rockland at the farnsworth museum; it's been here for at least a year :-P

[null_known]

Doesnt Robert Indiana live/lived somewhere near rockland?
From what i remember, it might have been vinalhaven (though i could be remembering it wrong since im partial to that area)
Also, he never copyrighted the "LOVE" image, so it got ripped off a whole lot. They even had a stamp series with it, and he never saw a dime.

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i heard just today on NPR that Robert Indiana is a "long-time resident of Vinalhaven"