REALLY? Really???!!!
REALLY? Really???!!! Images JG

Under Pier Pressure, the eight-channel sound installation that haunts the pier at Jack Block Park during this summer's Duwamish Revealed exhibition, has been vandalized to the point that it no longer works, says artist Robb Kunz.

This is the art that made someone call the authorities to find out whether a submarine was in the waters below.

This is the art that Kunz had to brave high tide for five separate times in order to install it, because he had to lash the speakers to the underside of the pier. He did it by canoe, waiting for the right moment when he could stand tall enough to attach the speakers but not be crushed between water and wood. At one point the authorities thought he and the friend helping him were suspicious characters, and they detained and questioned them.

Earlier today, I wrote another post about a case of art vandalism.

Who are vandals? What motivates them? Are they angry, feel powerless?

ATTENTION VANDALS! I'm serious now. Forward this to any vandals you know, if you yourself are not a vandal.

1. Can you please explain why you do what you do? My purpose in asking is not to judge (although I reserve the right to despise you, as anyone does anyone).

2. How would you respond to my belief that you're ruining the wrong things when you attack works of art? I actually see the logic in ruining Niketown. I do not see the logic in ruining art. Art that's out in public is not typically the establishment force you might think it is. Often, artists and art supporters are teeny little people with teeny little scraped-together budgets trying like hell, in a universe of rampant capitalism and mass media, to create a teeny little alternative, like a bit of noise that might make you wonder what's to be done, for instance, about the fact that establishment forces have ruined Seattle's only river and tried to destroy the humans living from it.

Maybe you see artists and art supporters as patsies providing cover and distraction for what's really sick and wrong in this world. Whitewashers, I mean.

Or maybe you don't. Maybe... oh, speak for yourself.

What do you have to say for yourself?