What A House Throwing Up Would Look Like

By Alex in Art, Home & Garden, Pictures on Feb 23, 2012 at 3:29 pm

How would a house feel like if it knew that its life would come to an end? It would throw up , according to artist Chris Whiteburch of art collective Ink Tank Lab, as shown in their art project "Last New Year" in Austin, Texas.

From Colossal:

The premise for the project was fascinating: the ensemble imagined a fictional group of people living in the home who would react to the prophesied end-of-times 2012 date. One of my favorite pieces from the show is a giant installation called The Purge by artist Chris Whiteburch who decided to imagine how the house itself would confront the impending doom. The result is a structure purging its contents, all manner of debris and structural material shooting violently through a window into a giant wooden splash.

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  1. PacRim Jim
    Feb 23rd, 2012 at 7:41 pm

    The good thing about this kind of art is that you don’t ever need to master any skill. Just grab a boozy idea and voilĂ , de gustibus…


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