(Side note – it wasn’t accidental at all, see below.) Art of the Brick is a travelling exhibition from Nathan Sawaya, an ex lawyer turned art extraordinaire. He has created a unique collection using only Lego bricks, over a million of them at that, and you thought your childhood collection was pretty untouchable, well it wasn’t it was pathetic. (Sorry for some harsh home truths) The exhibition show cases original creations as well as Lego copies of famous art works. The detail and scope of the work is mesmerising, totally utterly memorising. Here’s a couple of pictures, not too many though you’ll have to go for yourself. Fricking Free loaders.
I thinker this one is really good
Not made of Lego, jk it is
OH LOOK HARRY, LOUIS, LIAM AND NIALL, BUT WHO’S THAT NORMAL PERSON WITH THEM????!!!!
Nathan has also become quite the philosopher, inspiring people to feed their inner creative and just create. This is one of his below:
“Create what you see, create what you feel, create what you have never seen, just create.”
Wow, inspiring stuff, it almost makes me want to create my own exhibition using only plastic spoons and batteries; I’ll just wait for a rainy day. Not today though, busy.
There’s a certain persona you take on when you’re visiting an exhibition, I don’t think anybody means to it just happens. You’re in awe, you’re in the moment it’s cool, we get it, you believe what’s in front of you because you want to believe. My point is you could be looking at absolutely anything and be completely oblivious and that’s where some questionable behaviour comes into play…
The last room is a collection of photographs with select inanimate objects replaced by… you guessed it… sugar cubes. Just kidding it’s with Lego; obviously, it’s a Lego exhibition, everything’s made of Lego, keep up. Time for ye olde classic of ‘Exit through the gift shop’ but it’s a fun gift shop with Lego stations so you can get to work on creating your own art. This is when I got to thinking WWND – What would Nathan Do? Inspired by the earlier quote I decided to mimic a smaller scale tree from the photograph. My final product could have been made by a blind drunk man with no thumbs. It was by no means my best work, but with the time I had it was probably passable. I wanted to compare it to the original so I took back into the exhibition and placed it next to it. I placed it next to it and then I walked away. I walked away and left it there. Without any shame, I had just become part of the exhibition, borderline criminal behaviour. I feel it’s what Nathan would have wanted after all he did say “create what you feel” and in my defence I feel he was egging me on the whole way round.
Trolling everyone. Soz.
Guys, GUYS…
After I walked away there was a new wave of people arriving, a couple of children too, the perfect audience for my addition to the collection. What would people think? Would they be honest and say “That is rubbish, I could literally do that” or would they go along with it, I mean why wouldn’t they. I overheard one man say “He created it in small scaled too” Can you imagine? I could not handle my life in that moment. I mean look it at – really look at it, it’s a joke. His poor son was having the most trouble trying to locate the “smaller scale” tree in the picture, he couldn’t handle his life either, he wanted to find it so bad. Poor thing.
A few more people were taking pictures none the wiser that I had just made it next door in five minutes. I couldn’t take any more so I had to leave. Where is my tree now? I think it’s still standing tall, inspiring people from all over the world. It’ll probably join the tour; end up in Paris, Tokyo and Milan. I would hope the employees are weary of its legitimacy, but if they touch it, it will almost certainly fall apart and probably make them feel like a terrible person. Sorry about that.
One more time, I mean look at it.. Really look at it, it’s a mess.
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