Stay within the lines
One of the first things that we are taught as children is to stay within the lines.
They say that some people's trash is other people's treasure. They also say that some people's treasure is other people's trash. And still yet, they say that some people's trash is just trash.
Someone has put up this tall pile of yellow and orange junk bikes near the Subway restaurant in Bentonville. My first reaction was that it was a pile of worthless dung. My wife explained to me that it was some type of abstract art that someone had created.
Here is my opinion on this type of so called art. Suppose I invented several new coffee flavors. Suppose that I created one flavor that I truly loved but every one who tasted it vomited it out of their mouth and said that it was the worst thing that they had ever tasted. Should I force them to continue drinking my master piece?
Someone constructed this eyesore and called it art and someone with the Bentonville Art Department authorized the repulsive thing to be displayed so that we are all required to look at it when we drive by it. Just like the story about the emperor with no clothes. Any child can plainly see that it is just a pile of rubbish.
I may not be puking every time I see that worthless pile of metal every time I drive by see it or any other vile piece of so called art that someone else creates, but what am I to do when my eyes begin to bleed every time I see these worthless piece?
Maybe there should be some type of limits or guide lines for what is considered art and what a worthless eyesore is.
Question: Is this the reaction that the artist wanted to get?
Boyd B. McNielPea Ridge, Ark.
Editorial on 05/31/2017