78/365 Butts

Eric and I went to First Thursday and saw some very interesting and compelling work.  One of our favorites was Sean Healy's "Upstate" exhibit.  Most of the work was created from cigarette butts (and other materials).  According to the gallery host, Sean's work was representing the men of my father's generation who worked the mills, the mines and the plants their entire lives.  Get up, go to work, come home, kiss your wife, go to bed...get up tomorrow and do it again...and while you're at it, smoke two packs of Pall Mall's a day.  You can find Sean's work at the Elizabeth Leach Gallery through May 28.



Hundreds (perhaps thousands) of clean, unsmoked butts were arranged on this large acrylic disk in a male pattern baldness arrangement.



Smoked butts lodged into concrete formed the silhouete of a man.