"Many have asked where the idea for these pieces came from. Well, quite obviously from the bathroom! I had the idea while standing over a urinal many times a day and letting the shape inspire me. I saw a shoe, a mouth, a shovel, a cup, etc. The flower became the shape I finally chose partly because I love flowers and partly because it is the perfect contradiction - taking a mundane, even ugly object and transforming it into something different, even something beautiful."
The shell on the top left looks like it would be too hard to get the right aim into...
Uh... how about "no"?
Maybe it's just me, and I'm a female so maybe I'm missing something about the appeal since I obviously don't use urinals, but I just find this wrong on so many levels.
Being "wrong" is what makes these so great. Very Surrealist, and workmanship evokes Jeff Koons.
ok not super tasteful BUT - what fun and pretty well done - they would need to be kept super clean though -
I am not quite ready to order yet but...do you get the machine scented spray for free???
The more I think about this the less I like it. Who wants to clean these things? Gross. Maybe redoing the idea, for a drinking fountain, With completely new flowers, of course.
these are very vulvic. if you think about it that way, their usage is pretty disturbing.
Why?
I agree with jennie(2). Flowers are a common symbol of femininity, and more specifically female genitalia. Shells have served a similar symbolic function. Presenting them as something for men to piss in is rather disturbing, to say the least. As sculptures, they are very well-executed, but as functional objects I find them disturbing.
I agree with Baby Strange. These symbols of fertility, sexuality and female genitilia being used as 'waste receptacles' is disturbing. In fact I almost find it mysoginstic. The shell could be intersting if one were to find it say, like at a Disney Hotel in Florida but the flowers are just wrong. It seems like the artist could have taken this further and actually made really beautifully shaped (organic) FORMS inspired by flowers. Instead, hes chosen to do a literal interpretation. These urinals are not surrealist and nothing like Jeff Koons.
i love these! it's so bad, it's GOOD;)
Very unique, Idealistic and colorful. Just watch your self when going down, on one. I never thought I would say urinals would need a trim.