I stumbled across this 2015 video of Kim Adam's Bruegel Bosch Bus at the Art Gallery of Hamilton. I'm hoping to get out there with the gang - er, the 30Squares editorial staff-at-large :-) - for a return visit this summer. It needs to be examined for a Molasses Mine :-)
I consider myself well versed in the bits and pieces he has used...the DPM, Walthers, laser cut signs, etc. Seeing them on the Bruegel-Bosch Bus causes a reaction in me of simultaneous recognition and confusion, akin to when you are a kid and you see your elementary school teacher at the grocery store. Logically I can accept they are parts being used in an art installation. But I have become so used to seeing them on traditional model railroad settings, modules, 'layouts' and the like. It is one of the primary reasons I kitbash structures - to remove that function of recognition and allow the viewer to see the scene I'm creating and not get hung up on the constituent parts. This art challenges me in a good way.
ReplyDeleteI saw it back in 2014 (maybe it was 2013). We stopped in Hamilton on our way to Niagara Falls. It's quite startling. I recall circling it a few times identifying all the kits and model railroading stuff before settling down to having a good look - I had to get that out of my system. Also, there's lots of artspeak around it, as there is around all art, but I try my best to ignore all that and concentrate on just looking. Apparently Kim Adams adds to it every year, so it's probably quite different now after so many years.
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