ARTiculAction Art Review - Special Issuue Aug. 2016 | Page 188

ICUL CTION
C o n t e m p o r a r y

A r t

Suzanne Smith

R e v i e w

Special Issue

accumulation and resultant
inappropriateness of the declarations of
love. It's the accumulation and timing.
The closest way of making to that was
the billboard I made My Bottom Feels
Funny. That same sense of being
really, really tickled and almost daring
myself to do it. In that case the idea
came from being offered a billboard to
make a piece of work for and being
very much aware that I didn't have
anything important enough to put on
it (I didn't think anyone else did
either, it's not a lack of confidence

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thing more of a suspicion of
grandiosity). It came out of a
throwaway remark to a friend that I
may as well write "my bottom feels
funny" because what could I possibly
say that was important enough to
warrant a billboard. Then the idea of
actually using that line as the work
started to become a possibility. I
became really interesting in how
shocking people found it. People's
gasps were fascinating (and very
addictive). It's such a something-andnothing statement that doesn't use
explicit language or imagery.