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I think it's already interesting. You can already see the difference in age on the existing blocks, and the difference will only grow with each decade of the project. I think the contrast between the first and final blocks would make a striking sight and poignant point about how something we might consider permanent within a single lifetime, concrete, really really isn't.
The project also doesn't require that every block be concrete. The material can be whatever, and as such, future blocks, and then past blocks, may come to represent the major construction methods of their times.
As an art-installation that makes me contemplate the past, the future, and the passing of time, I'd consider it successful starting on the day the first block was put down.
Whether it becomes complete one day, or is abandoned somewhere along the way, the piece has, and will have, a lot to say about the relationship that humans have with time.
I think you’re glamourising it beyond its merit. As the planet turns into a smoking ball of shit over next 75 years. People will have less opportunity and desire to stare at a pile of concrete blocks while stroking their dick in wonder. Humans are too quick to label things “poignant” in our quest to bring meaning into an increasingly meaningless world. We’ve reached a point where the quest for poignancy now results in literal sculptures made of feces being discussed as critical statements of the human condition. With the money being spend on the pyramid, what practical good could we do today?
You're right.
Contemplation is meritless. The art installations and greenery in our towns and cities are doing nothing more than fellating the egos of "creatives". Introspection is dead, and living life for anything other than brutal utility is an insult to efficient civilization. And since we can't live as if we're machines, we should all just kill ourselves.
/S
Art is important. It's one the things people actually want to do, you know, for fun. One of the things that makes a meaningless existence worth enduring.
That you get off spitting on the concept as if it's nothing more than a masturbatory vice is unimaginably tragic.
You’re back to calling this pyramid thing art again. Which is where you run afoul of your own circular logic. I think you should step back and look closely at what you wrote. See if it make sense to you after a close scrutinization.
What?
My own circular logic? Are you suggesting I somehow discredited my own view?
Or do you not know what /s means?
It is an art installation, literally, and I think it's a pretty cool one.