Eat a Peach: Mitchell Rasansky's Favorite Public Art Piece Set For September 30 Bow

• Glad to oblige, Knottygirl. But I think Mark one-upped me, and I laughed enough to become a little flushed.

• what no blues lovers out there? If you don't like my peaches...

• I can't help feeling the piece could be improved with some cream, or perhaps Herb. ******* This had me laughing out loud. And I could dearly use a laugh today, so thank you very much, Obama's Seat.

• Actually, I think that's a great idea for an outdoor public art piece: a working toilet on some sort of display pedestal It could have a machine hooked up to it that drops a one dollar bill into it, then flushes it away, once an hour, every hour, 24 hours a day. Like kinetic sculpture. You could easily hook something like that up to the city's sewer system, from a public park plaza or corporate building garden/entrance. It would be an engaging conversation piece! It might have to be behind some sort of glass or barrier to keep people from grabbing the dollars before they're flushed away. Let's see, not including the actual cost of building and maintaining the toilet dollar flushing sculpture, and using the $18,000 figure given for the peaches...the toilet dollar flushing sculpture would use up a dollar every hour, which is $24 a day, which equals $8,640 for a year...hmm, do the math...okay with $18,000 you get about two and a half years of non-stop dollar bill flushing. Did I do that right? I'm sure by that point people would be bored with it or it might be covered in graffiti anyway. It would be a pretty great public art idea, I think, in a Duchamp-ian kind of way. Very risque! I hope no one steals my idea.

• Having stared at the installation for almost 45 minutes now (just can't tear myself away), I've come to the conclusion the piece is missing something, there's a void. Perhaps it is intentional - to recognize the void of our collective soul, or the void of downtown Dallas, or what too many peaches will do to the bowels, but I can't help feeling the piece could be improved with some cream, or perhaps Herb.

• Tell Rasansky that the peaches keep bats away.

• I am overcome with an emotion when I see this, disgust. When the city is having to cut basic services, spending money on any new art pieces is ludicrous. They might as well be taking wads of money and flushing it down the toilet. When all of your city's needs are met, and you have a budget surplus, is when the city needs to spend money on new art projects.

• Yes, they will tour ballparks across the country, promoting dot races.

• deep fired = deep fried. But deep fired sounds pretty good too. I must admit, I was overtaken by emotion on seeing the picture, I can't imagine how powerful this work must be in the flesh. Will there be a national tour?

• Shouldn't they be deep-fired?

• $18,000 for fiberglass peaches? If some business owner spent $100 on fiberglass, resin, and paint & then tried to display them, the city would issue fines for illegal signs. But have some body calling themselves an 'artist' and they get $18,000. Next thing we know Calatravehenge will be considered art and the tax payers will have to pay extra on that.

• This is a prime example why there is a revolution in visual arts. It's part of the overall art revolution started here in Dallas. (the one so threatening that no conservative media dare talk about it) For more on why modern art isn't modern anymore the Observer should report on this manifesto Revolution in Arts (Visual) http://musea.wordpress.com/2009/06/01/musea-extra-summary-of-the-revolution-in-art-visual-arts/

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