Thinking Outside the Box
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Oh it’s impressive and all, but it really would have been something if she’d painted a picture of a vagina with her vagina. Then she could have framed the whole thing in tampons and called it “Herotica”, and Sarah Lawrence would have bought it for the Fallopian Studies building.
3:21 pm
A self absorbed piece of crap. Mind you, I think this one takes the cake:
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Oh, I didnt know Micheal’s now sell Vagina brushes? Geeze, I need to go buy me some of those!
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3:24 pm
She really wanted to use menstrual blood too, but thought that might be a bit WEIRD.
Mmph.
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3:24 pm
So, am I correct in assuming that the artist dipped her hoo-hoo in paint, and then flopped it on the canvas several times, thereby creating abstract vag prints? Same as finger painting, only, er, in this case, vagoo painting???
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3:27 pm
The image of someone painting with her girl bits is now going to be etched in my brain.
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3:28 pm
Check out this one http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=29799278
It clearly seems to have vagina imprints on it… or Labia I guess.
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3:30 pm
Her *vagina* is actually internal, and unless she rolled up the canvas and inserted it into her vagoona, she did NOT paint this with her vagina.
Might just have to convo her…
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3:35 pm
Damn. I should not drink-and-regretsy….
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3:39 pm
(a) grown woman doesn’t know her anatomy
(b) she is offering tours of her studio
(c) she throws her body at a canvas and calls it “art”
(d) she has a fiance’ and my ass is still single?
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3:43 pm
Also the musician GG Allen did a ketchup enema on french fries live on stage, which I luckily have never seen in person. He is revered among punk music people although I don’t share the enthusiasm, I went to one show when he was alive and left after 5 minutes.
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3:45 pm
Granted I think the idea is kind of cool ::IN THEORY::
There was a story on the local news about a woman who was diagnosed with breast cancer and wanted a memento of her tits before he had a mastectomy so she painted with her nipples. They were flowers and were actually pretty cool looking. She ended up making a couple of more paintings and selling them to benefit cancer research.
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3:51 pm
We don’t care about your vagoona!! You have one, get over it. Its anatomy, its flesh, and if you are going to use it to do a painting with you can be certain no ones going to want to touch that painting…
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3:55 pm
@rutgersjd-i’m going with (d)(for myself), but only because i think (a) has become a pandemic problem. if there were as many actual vaginas being painted, made of polymer clay, crocheted and photographed as claimed, there would be a whole lot of very dark art out…
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4:20 pm
my mouth was open waaay too wide in utter disbelief as i was laughing like the crazy woman i am (altho probably saner than this vulva-painter)
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4:29 pm
If you want to impress me grow your pubes long enough to twist into a brush like dread lock and paint something with that, that would be pretty original.
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4:35 pm
Um… ew? The very day that things like that are considered art, I will give up and become a secretary.
Better start practising my typing skills, I think I’m running behind.
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4:47 pm
Wouldn’t this be the type of “artsy” thing to give to your boy/girlfriend, husband/partner….. as a funny, kinky “Heyyyy (wink wink) I made this with my naughty bits!” kind of a thing? Instead of a “WOOO – LOOK AT MY VAGOO, ETSY!” kind of thing?
But seriously, this can’t be sanitary.
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4:47 pm
Pubist! That’s funny!
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4:51 pm
love the “girlie bits” comment. haha. girlie bits.
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5:26 pm
“16 x 20. Acrylic and canvas, vagina, can be purchased with a frame for a charge of seven dollars.”
?? I feel like this is something you need to explain clearly in EVERY item listing. Some of the vagina prints don’t even really point out that they are actual vag prints and not just painted. The way this one is phrased it sounds like she’s talking to a vagina.
“Yes, vagina, there is a Santa Claus.”
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5:28 pm
It’s nice to put a face to a vagina
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?ref=vl_other_2&listing_id=29798612
“White vagina”? Say what!
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5:28 pm
IndyJules! – HA!! Good one!
Oh, man, that film is so full of funny. I need to watch it again soon….
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5:30 pm
#44 For the WIN!!!
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5:31 pm
Ya’ll are killin’ me over here!!!!
I think you just gave us the perfect saying for a regretsy Christmas card.
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5:39 pm
@artsnark – she revealed this to me one evening after waaay too much to drink. and she also disclosed that she had been contemplating telling me for a long time.
btw, by “old” friend i meant “former” friend just for the record…
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5:44 pm
Er….
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5:48 pm
Sa-weet Naveedess!
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6:11 pm
#55 – I’ll be here all night.
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6:51 pm
but if I was going to lather up my nether regions with paint and press the naughty bits on a campus, I’d be charging a hell of a lot more for the trouble!
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7:13 pm
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=29799278
That looks like what would happen if roadkill exploded..
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7:23 pm
Apparently somebody’s vagina was absent the day they taught the color wheel in school.
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7:36 pm
The is actual hoohaw juice in this painting. Fluids, from the genitals of a living woman, are in… this painting. If you put it up in your house, inevitably at some point you would be sitting in your reading chair, relaxing, breathing in airborne molecules … of stranger vulva. That is simply not on.
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7:39 pm
(by the necessity of writing hoohaw juice in a sentence.)
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7:44 pm
If theres ever a reason for Etsy to become a juried site, here it is
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?ref=vl_other_2&listing_id=28772063
*rbus away*
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7:44 pm
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=28772489
and another reason
*runs away again*
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7:45 pm
#67 ROFL
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7:54 pm
materials: love and my secret ingredient
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7:54 pm
@ #7 Hammerhead: yep that about sums it up. LOVELY
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8:01 pm
Love, Etsy Style:
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=21088390
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8:12 pm
@69 Oh, Etsy has a jury all right. You’re sittin on it! And what a hard-nosed, nasty lot we are.
But we sons o bitches are funny. Daaaamn funny. Let the trials go on!
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8:19 pm
@14 (hammerhead again). Ohhh I dunno, you just gotta use your problem solving skills here…
I am thinking she painted her vag with an ACTUAL paintbrush (really, why reinvent the wheel?) and then took a piece of art paper and blotted it Bounty style (paper towel in case the brand is not international… effin great stuff). Not so hard and not so epileptic yoga. Probably accomplished in less than 5 minutes… $30 is overpriced, really.. when you think about it that way…
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8:19 pm
Thx Helen!
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8:31 pm
LOL that my comment offended so many people…she used that word in her TAGS that’s why I repeated it here…
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9:09 pm
#64 polaroidart :
…some people collect erotic art, btw.
if they collect serial killer’s art, why not this?
Because THIS is stupid and at least Gacy’s paintings actually looked like clowns.
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9:14 pm
Those look like doodles I used to put all over my homework when I was 10…
…this is a grown woman
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9:18 pm
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?ref=vl_other_1&listing_id=28778565
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9:19 pm
I’d kinda see it as more along the lines of hanging used toilet paper on the wall. I mean, I don’t even hang my own used toilet paper on my wall, so there’s a big ‘no thank you’ to buying and then hanging up somebody elses.
That being said, I think I’d be much more impressed with this chick if she urinated paint. That would at least be an accomplishment (of sorts.)
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9:21 pm
When you hang paintings do you touch them? When you dust do you touch the object you’re dusting? Of course nobody is going to lick the painting, but you can certainly come into contact with it in other ways.
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9:21 pm
@86 ahahah
is that what you would do?
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9:22 pm
@#88: I believe the technique being used is different. 久保田成子 is using a brush; here… by stamping her vajiji
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9:24 pm
I know, I know. Upthread, there was discussion of using the vagina vs. printing the vulva. I’m just trying to use my art history education in the real world.
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9:29 pm
someone should suggest she adds that to her description
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9:30 pm
Better yet, I will buy it as a gift for her.
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9:38 pm
95- Dried up or not it’s still gross. Would YOU buy it?
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#100 NinjaGato :
Its probably aformentioned wad of used toilet paper.
‘Here! I wiped my nether-regions with this also!! Don’t you love it?! Isn’t it fantastic’
God help us.
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9:57 pm
Holy shit, it just sold!
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10:04 pm
god bless you, helen, for providing a forum for this groundbreaking discussion.
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10:32 pm
Haha oh Lord. I can only imagine. A glossy b/w signed portrait of the ‘artist,’ the signature would consist of her sitting in a tub of ink and squishing her hooha onto the photo.
I almost wish I knew the person who bought this. I would grab them by the shoulders and shake them and yell ‘DON’T FEED THE BEARS’ Then I’d get a stick and carry the painting out to a fire pit and burn it.
And then I’d burn the stick.
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10:45 pm
it’s sold! awesome.
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11:04 pm
‘Why, yes! How wonderful of you to notice. I aquired it from the online internet! From a place called the Etsy. It seems there is a lady who smears paint on her hooha and squishes it onto things!’
‘How whimsicle!’
‘Indeed!’
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3:55 am
Naked woman squatting in a crab position, tongue poking out applying liberal amounts of Dulux to her clamato then doing a Dr Zoidberg all over the canvas.
Whoop whoop whoop.
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6:13 am
#113 – “clamato”
i didn’t think this thread could get any better, but it just did. thanks for that – it’s only 8:15am and you’ve already made my day!
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7:15 am
If I’m disturbed right now. It’s my fault for reading all the comments.
This is worse than the squirrel blood that nearly had me gagging.
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8:23 am
Wonder how many quarters in a stack she can pick up, in one squat, from the floor with her vagina…since she thinks she has so much talent!
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9:07 am
Eat your heart out Hermann Rorschach!
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9:30 am
Here’s a thought: if a whole *group* of women collectively painted a vagina with their vaginas (or labia), it could be a Women’s Studies Ph.D dissertation project!
Just think of the incredible contribution this would make to academia.
Gives me the shivers.
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9:35 am
This looks way too much like finger painting, except I’m not convinced she used her fingers and instead sat on it, if you know what I mean.
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http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=21088390
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3:57 pm
I found this gem on the interwebs. Apparently in some rare cases your vagina can come out. The article says many women whose vagina’s become prolapsed don’t know it…how do you not know that your vagina is hanging inside out?
http://www.topix.com/forum/city/south-shore-ky/TONH3VSP4S1477PGS
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10:12 pm
1) Helen, you’re going to give people ideas. (And if I wasn’t busy this week, I’d so make VaginaArt with Tampon Frame, just to sell it for a benefit of some kind.)
2) Once upon a time, at Burning Man before it got commercial/cool, there was a guy collecting paint prints of breasts. If only I’d known then that I could have charged…
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12:30 pm
#47 – I thought maybe you could get the vagina framed too.
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1:14 pm
Since the negative space just left of center is shaped like a bottle, with a little Photoshopping (hint, hint, Hammerhead77) this piece could be used in an Absolut Vodka ad: Absolut Vaginart.
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5:02 pm
That’s all for today! Goodnight everybody!
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3:58 pm
The vag/vulva thing aside, I pretty much like this. (personally I think she should have said she used her cunt to paint it, but not my call) The only thing I *don’t* like about it is the color choice. Should have been more of a prussian blue, or a red/yellow/orange blend.
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4:12 am
Helen, please please please let us see what it would look like in a room! Pretty please please please?
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10:06 pm
“Due to the positioning this piece requires this canvas is completely flat.”
I thought a curved surface would have been easier to “paint.”
If she requires a flat surface, can we assume the artist is a double amputee? A human rubber stamp?
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2:53 pm
how do you even walk into jo-ann’s to buy paint for some shit like this. i am positive i couldn’t do it with a straight face.
if van gogh had done this with his sweaty ballsack i bet he wouldn’t have died poor and insane.
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7:26 am
So are you saying that these are only labia paintings?
What would be considered a true vagina painting? Doorknobs? Bud vases? Easter eggs?
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4:09 pm
How appropriate that the vagina painter’s only feedback is as a buyer from Creative Clam.
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2:38 pm
Somebody please snatch that snatch!
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6:38 pm
OH VEY SMEAR !
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8:28 am
Why is it that every time my alma mater is mentioned it has the context of crazy artists, crazy feminists, and/or people who were the geek in high school and let their sudden “popularity” at college where everyone is weird go to their head?
Actually, while at least two of those characterizations fit the majority of the people who I met there, most of those former Sarah Lawrence students are pretty much like the snarky, tongue-in-cheek, pop-culture consuming and snubbing people here.
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