Red Grooms/Installation
So this is the thought that began to formed in my mind as we were driving through Georgia...installation...Southern culture installation...
( Now if you are not familiar with the United States and the roads and regions then it needs a little explaining. First of all Georgia is a very long state and it takes a very long time to drive through on your way to somewhere else, so one's mind is bound to wander and take odd turns.) I began to think of the Southern culture and its images as an installation worthy of an art exhibition.
If you speak Southern the main nouns in your language are fried chicken, cornbread, greens, BBQ, boiled peanuts, and coke. That is just a start for there is also fat back, strap back molasses, and cracklings. Guns and baseball caps are important also if we are creating a scene...rocking chairs help, stuffed heads of deer and fowl...hence the importance of guns. Think old ford and chevy pickup trucks with gun racks on the back window...the installation is worthy of Red Grooms who does recreations of city scenes and people doing things with a sense of humor. I think the extremes of Southern culture would allow for a wonderful Grooms piece. See what you think?
Now it may just be me, but I don't think it is normal to see a stuffed fox displayed with an ad for hot pizza nor a stuffed mounted deer head with cookie dough mix. But that is just the oddity of some parts of county Southern culture.
One of the things that amazed me is how many kinds of BBQ sauce one can find in Southern stores..not two or three, but a whole isle of bottle after bottle of sauce...tomato based, vinegar based, mustard based, and on and on.
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