STRAY EGGPLANT
An ongoing conceptual art project by Laura Gentry
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Stray Eggplant is an artistic endeavor, begun in 2004, by artist, author and ordained minister, Laura E. Gentry. Because today's technology makes information so readily available to us, we are inundated with it. Words fly at us from everywhere. Often, this information is without context and difficult to process. The Stray Eggplant project invites viewers to look differently at the whirl of random words that fill our existence, to contemplate our personal responsibility to interpret this deluge of information and find focus, meaning and hope to sustain us in this journey.
The Stray Eggplant conceptual project consists of small ceramic sculptures which are sold throughout the country in Art*o*mat vending machines and directly to consumers at the Gentry Joint Web store. At this time, there are over 700 of them in existence. Each unique, hand-made sculpture contains a phrase gleaned indiscriminately from the news, a Web site, movie, tv show, song, book, cliche, advertisement, sacred text, or something overheard in daily conversation. Apart from its original context and emblazoned upon a whimsical vegetable, the quote can be interpreted in any number of ways. The viewer, then, becomes the meaning-maker.
To explore this concept, each eggplant owner is invited to send a photo and response to Stray Eggplant, P.O. Box 11, Marquette, IA 52158 or e-mail to strayeggplant@yahoo.com. These portraits are posted at the Eggplant Owner's Gallery. There more than 70 owners posted.
To explore this concept, each eggplant owner is invited to send a photo and response to Stray Eggplant, P.O. Box 11, Marquette, IA 52158 or e-mail to strayeggplant@yahoo.com. These portraits are posted at the Eggplant Owner's Gallery. There more than 70 owners posted.
