Self Portrait No. 4

Sam drew on the door.

Its a beautiful self-portrait of the artist playing a guitar. It's signed as well. The first three attempts were done with a white board marker and came off with a mr. clean. They were done on the bathroom door, both sides, during his "personal sit down time." The response from the local art community was marginal at best.

This last and final piece of installation art was drawn with a sharpie brand permanent marker. The artist choice of material was clearly making a illusion to graffiti artists and testing the avante garde status of local critics. Hurtado also harkened to performance artists by pooping in his pants just as the art work was completed.

However, it was not well received. With no first hand experience with the Graffiti and Performance Art Movement's idea of the world being your canvas, the critics scoffed, lamented and finally spanked when the mr. clean didn't work.

The artist pleased his artist case with the following concepts, "Its my playroom door and therefore does not actually belong to you. I thought you would like it. I may have to clean this door forever. And finally, I hate you. In hopes to expose mass auidences to this new medium, I present you Self Portrait No. 4 By Samuel Malcolm Hurtado.

Here's to contemporary art, I quit!