The Welcome Rain Falling From the Sky
I love Taiwanese artist Kuang-Yu Tsui’s 1997 conceptual art piece The Welcome Rain Falling From the Sky but I couldn’t really tell you what it means. Something about the way people are bombarded with advertisements for consumer goods? I also couldn’t help but think of the iOS game co-created by Neven Mrgan, The Incident.
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I am into this, so much happens in one minute! Fwiw the artist has written this description on his own website:
And his artist bio offers some other clues about what the work might be about. I'm also feeling the existential environmental vibes that may not have been intended.
Without any extra context it could be so many things—-Materialism and the general wreckage caused by having so much stuff? Dodging consumerism and getting out just in time? The wreckage of life? The game that is surviving the onslaught of ads, as you mentioned. I think that’s why I like it- because it can be so many things, and we get to notice for ourselves what it brings up in us.
This feels like a metaphor for my job!
His uncredited collaborator? David Letterman!
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