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Duct-taped banana and a growling stomach
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https://www.cnn.com/style/article/art-basel-miami-maurizio-cattelan-banana-scli-intl/index.html
The Comedian —
A curved ripe banana
once a pure and unadulterated yellow
now peppered with aging brown flecks
like sunspots on tops of hands
fashioned against
a crisp white wall
in the halls of Art Basel Miami
duct-taped in silver by Maurizio Cattelan
who said,
“what’s the point of our life?
Everything seems absurd
until we die
and then it makes sense.”
And the visitors watch
the death of the produce
the fragility of global trade
the gullibility
and excess of the art world
the gap between janitors
starving artists
and those who pay $120,000
for rotting food
and a couple of inches of duct tape