600 rusty typewriters in cages: symbolic statement about free flow of ideas
A San Francisco Chronicle story from last week about Sheryl Oring who's been working on this art for the last five years buying up the 600 typewriters that make up the work. It has been displayed in various cities including at the site of the 1933 Nazi book burnings in Berlin.
That is how art works, says the San Francisco woman who collected the typewriters, broke the typewriters and jammed the typewriters into 21 huge metal cages. It was a challenging thing to do, because great art should be challenging....
"It's a symbolic statement about the meaning of the free flow of ideas," said Oring, a forthright woman who has sunk nearly $100,000 of her own money into the project, a sum which can make even an artist forget that artists are not supposed to talk about symbolism and meaning.