In the 1960’s, American pop artist Andy Warhol created sculptures using the logos from consumer products like Kellogg’s and Heinz ketchup. In one such exhibit, he hired craftsmen to make Brillo boxes out of plywood that were indistinguishable from the ones you’d find in the cleaning aisle at the local grocery store. It generated some wild controversy since people would genuinely ask, ‘can something so mundane really be considered a work of art?’. ‘It’s a commercial product… has Warhol gone insane?’. ‘Could something like this be valuable?’. ‘How are we to interpret this form of so-called artwork?’. Questions swirled as shocked art lovers tried to make sense of the boxes. One critic has stated that the “display of the many Brillo boxes alluded to the abundance of seriality, appearing to contribute to a larger continuum”. Turning something as ordinary as soap pad boxes into that which causes people to talk is indeed a masterful work of art.
This parking lot attendant booth was painted to resemble the Brillo boxes that generated such a stir. It is located across the street from the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh at the corner of Sandusky Street and East General Robinson Street. The booth was installed on August 25, 2014 according to the Andy Warhol Museum Twitter account.
Establish my footsteps in Your Word ~ Psalm 119:133 