About 38 years ago I started what I’m sure will become the defining art project of the 20th and 21st centuries. While working at the Sheller Globe Plant in Niles MI. I started this project. The material used was intended to be the rear LH inner door panel support for the 1980 Lincoln Town Car. The injection molding machine that this part was being produced need purged so that is what I did and art history was made. At the time I knew I had produced the art of the century and I also knew that the art public wasn’t ready for such a piece so it has been aging for the last 38 years. Early on I was going to finish it and take it to one of the big art places in New York and sell it for like a million dollars but I thought I best wait. Well now it’s finished and since it was started at about the same time Reagan did the trickle down economics stuff and started what has been a 40 year deregulation craze that has allowed the very rich to reap most of the economic gains so now I figure I should be able to get more like 10 million (although I wold take 9.5 million). But then again I’ve considered just donating to some museum and taking a big tax write off. When we were at the Louvre they had one wall that was kind of empty, it only had one painting on it, some dinky little portrait thing of Mona somebody. I think it would look nice there.
Anyway here is the finished piece that will be taking the art world by storm over the coming decades.
As you can see, even in just a photograph, the powerful art things coming off this work. They just jerk your eyeballs from one end to the other. Also you can tell it’s great art because it has a brass plate saying important stuff.
Now that it is done I’ll hang it here at the Estate d’Yusmith until I find the permanent home.