Inspiration

"Erratic" by Roxy Paine

For the final assignment, I'm thinking of installing my improbable monument somewhere in Los Angeles. While looking for the best place to install, I found this sculpture, "Erratic," done by a New York-based artist, Roxy Paine. His work is installed in Beverly Gardens Park in Beverly Hills. When I first saw this sculpture while driving Santa Monica Blvd. early this year, I thought it was a huge silver turd and so bold to place the turd next to Beverly Hills because I perceived it to show that celebrity culture is a full of crap, but people who live there are very rich.
However, Paine's actual concept of the work is to depict the struggle between the natural and the artificial; Humans always attempt to reproduce nature, but with technology, everything made by humans is unnatural.
In spite of his actual idea, it makes sense to me where the work is located because the culture and people's mentality and lifestyle in this particular area, I think, are unnatural or bizarre. I'm interested in finding out why this work is installed in Beverly Hills because I'm sure it's not accidental.