Thoughts on the Breaking Bad Sculpture
It was a lovefest at the Albuquerque Convention Center on Friday for the unveiling of the Walter White and Jesse Pinkman statue and why not? Breaking Bad was transformative for Albuquerque. It changed the way we saw ourselves and the world saw us. It made the film industry in this town. People bought houses with the money they made working on the show. Locals flocked to be background actors so they could point themselves out to their friends on the TV. While there are critics of the statue, in a city where a guy got shot two years ago over a dispute about the kind of statues we should have here, things could be more controversial.
Christie Green’s “Moonlight Elk”
For this exhibit, the artist Christie Green shot an elk, quartered and hauled her out of the woods, butchered the meat, boiled the bones, cast the heart, fashioned part of the animal’s sternum into a garment, suspended the articulated skeleton from the ceiling and welcomed visitors to the opening last night at North Fourth Street Art Center. I have been to plenty of openings in my life, but at only one other (my own) did they serve the animal that was the principal focus of the artwork on display to the viewers. I tried some. It was quite good.