Row of Jesus

Why all this? This is mass produced!

Art to me is a one of a kind creation

I think it's for the photograph, not that each piece is art. I would have taken this photo too...

It is a good photograph.

Thank you both. I'm afraid the focus is a little shy and the lighting too. I was holding the camera up above my head to try to avoid upward angle distortion. The display was pretty high. I just love these South American trinket tourist shops for the textures and colors and I think there's something catchy about production line Jesuses. I posted a bunch of similarly themed photos (texture,design) here under "Art and Photography" a while back that I shot in Peru.

I like that kind of textured display too...

I like it very much! What a great photo!

I've seen a lot of art that IS made from mass market stuff that I think is very cool.

I had a friend that made altars on certain themes. You would open the altar and it would be chock-a-block full of ..... say..... images of "Birth of Venus" or whatever. She was always amazed that when she would begin to search for a certain image that she found it reproduced everywhere.

I loved her altars.

I also like William Pope's "Map of the World" a backwards map of the USA made out of hot dogs.

I think Pitter has made art much in the same way in that he found this fabulous image.

I am such a sucker for iconograpy!

I don't mind the looking up business, the matter of parallax, however you spell it, Pitter, on this photo. Lot of trapezoids going on in that pic!

Pitter has a few more threads like this he just started... I landed on this one and haven't opened the others yet.

I haven't found the others yet....

Perhaps tomorrow.

Great!

I like finding the art in manufactured items - and the patterning you can find out in the world.

Great stuff, Pitter.

To me this is a documentary, cultural, journalistic type picture.

From my limited travels in Latin America it seems to me to be just rife with religious kitch the gaudier the better, in fact wonderfully fanciful sometimes.