Art or Early EDC?

Locutus D'Borg

Locutus D'Borg

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This is a 1960 mixed media work by Niki De Saint Phalle titled Tu C'est Moi ( You are me, or more correctly in French, you is me).
This is part of a special exhibition of her work at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. Looked similar to a typical EDC layout.

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I think art is like a joke. If you need it explained you are probably still not going to get it anyway. I hope K killgar is mistaken about the round red thing.

The knife is interesting, looks Roman?

The other items dont seem to go together.
 
A birthday party , picnic , forest bathing ? ...not at all .

Kidnapping , torture , murder and the unspeakable residue . :eek:
 
Very cool, does have edc vibe. I acrually like the black white and red with metal and wood, and way its laid out.
 
I don't know about you but a hammer, meat fork, rope, razor blade, etc. ain't in my pockets as EDC.

Look up Joseph Cornell to find some higher art of a similar nature.
 
I knew there were a few things my EDC loadout was missing but I just couldn't quite put my finger on it until now.
 
Princeton University's interpretation of it -

"In the assemblage Tu est Moi by the French artist Niki de Saint Phalle, a variety of found objects—including tools and one fake and one real weapon—are embedded in a dense, tactile layer of plaster. Above them is a blood red circle that reads alternately as a fiery sunset or the top of a can of paint. Tu est Moi attests to Saint Phalle’s interest in reclaiming and recontextualizing everyday materials as well as to her fascination with wordplay. The title "Tu est moi" is an ungrammatical French construction that, when spoken, sounds like "You and me," "You are me," and even "Kill me." Here Saint Phalle only alludes to brutality, but in other works, she actually engages in violence, as in her "shooting paintings," or Tirs. During her lifetime, Saint Phalle was associated first with the New Realists, the French counterparts to the American Pop artists, and then with the feminist art movement."
 
It reminds me of the time I left a tube of glue in a bucket of tools and it leaked over night. I thought about submitting it to the MOMA, but I had to get to work, so I cleaned the mess off my tools instead. Bugger, I could have made a fortune.
 
IDK, seems like stuff we all have. A sidearm and what we think is a good sheath knife. Or several. Open the trunk of your vehicle. Who doesn't have a hank of rope? Or several. Betcha there's a hammer in there. Unless you're still beating everything with a pipe wrench. We have the forceps in the tackle box for sure. Probably another pair in the toolbox. Or do you keep yours in the stash box for a roach clip? They practically give those razor blade utility knives away. I've got at least one in every toolbox, the kitchen drawer, and the pencil cans. The gear rack(with a little imagination)... we have that little handle to hold the broken hacksaw blades. The slick setup is to grind the end of the blade to a point. The automatic transmission flywheel up top - not sure what the artist's intention was. It still looks like a flywheel to me. But then again, I just spent a bunch of money to have mine replaced. Somewhere around the house we probably have a set of BBQ tools. I'm going to be in the market for a vintage fork soon but I'm still trying to figure out the difference between a craving fork and a turning fork.

I like art that doesn't take too much imagination to identify with.
 
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