Profound Object

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This piece, by Michael _____, brings the visual art concept of ‘objet trouvé’ to the written word. Visual artists have long re-presented mundane or functional objects, creating art simply by exhibiting those objects as such. In 1917 Marcel Duchamp famously placed a urinal on a pedestal, elevating an overlooked item to the status of art, and more recently artists such as Damian Hirst and Tracy Emin have shown a shark and an unmade bed as artworks. In the same way, Profound Object presents a functional, non-artistic text and asks us to re-examine it as an aesthetic creation.