Contemporary artist and writer, Douglas Coupland, has a couple of shows going on in Toronto at both the Royal Ontario Museum and the Museum Of Contemporary Canadian Art.
He also has a seven-foot resin and polyester sculpture of his head located smack dab in the middle of a high-end men’s retail store, where a gum ball machine beckons you to participate and help transform the head, by adding colourful bits of chewed gum. Beats sticking it under the desk at school.
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This would go over really well in a junior high school! Kinda yucky to me, but I give him credit for something really off the wall!
There is the yucky factor, but you’re right, it would be a huge hit in schools.
Wow, that’s kinda gross!! It looks amazing though, and as Joyce above me has said it would go great in a junior school! And it’s colourful, so I can’t hate it…But wow. Gross.
I totally agree with you. There is definitely the gross factor when making this!