tom nicon in Vivienne Westwood

And when we’re in your scholarly room
Who will swallow whom ?
When we’re in your scholarly room
Who will swallow whom ?
You handsome devil

Funny how Big Ears, Swimming Pools and Penises have all found their weird way into the Venice Biennale, Modern Art and Life in general.
It’s all about the swimming pool, darling, as naked boys, floating corpses, digital grains, the blue and Helmut Newton have already so gladly proven, children behave!
Big Ears have always had a sexy-funny charm that wasn’t lost on geniuses as acclaimed as Disney, (Dumbo is the name of the pre-school class a small child with big ears is attending and the irony is lost on no-one, except the child perhaps), they now have found their way in fashion, as up and coming models Tom Nicon and The Flamboy can prove…
And what about Penises? They have a way to put themselves in the damnedest places, so where’s the big surprise? Oh THAT’s the big surprise! I see..
And what about the Goodie-Bag, this new exciting artform? It can tell so much more about the giver, the artist, the creator, then it says about the receiver (not that it doesn’t say a lot about that too), it can comprise bits and pieces of other, less fortunate goodie-bags, arty bits and pieces, little presents and snippets of lives past and future, it can disclose souls and sentiments and not tell anything at all, it can open new worlds while closing doors, it can be fun, sad and all that’s in between….
So swimming pools, big ears, a kaleidoscope, an empty logbook, an unread book, photos that may or may not have something to do with anything, a whole musical life, a bracelet, all this stuff could be a birthday gift, a thought about adolescence, about tweens and thrills and pills, it could be about summer and beauty
BUT IS IT ART?