My name is Adam, I'm a photography professor, and I make things. I also edit a photography mag called 
my little black cat
So, I decided to put up some posters today for my stolen cat carrier sculpture back in December. I figured contextualizing the theft with the “Collegiates In Cuffs” page from Jailbird—a weekly mugshot newspaper in Greenville—would be plausible. Unfortunately, the mug shots were censored and taken down by SOAD staff almost immediately. I figured the posters were too, eh… posterish, and less about conceptual artmaking. I decided to combine the two images in a large poster that speaks to craft through painting and collage… maybe since it’s art the staff won’t meddle? We’ll see.
*Update: 1/3/2010
A “Collegiate in Cuffs” (see Jailbird, Pitt County Edition Volume 1, Issue 7) student contacted me last night and expressed his dissatisfaction with the posters I put around the SOAD. The student pleaded with me to remove his face from the poster because he was in no way responsible for the stolen sculpture, and even offered that I search his home for proof. Unfortunately, his information was acquired through public knowledge and the issue is now a moral dilemma. However, the poster did imply that a collegiate was responsible for the sculpture, even if the publication noted an unrelated crime. To this I am at fault and do not wish to slander anyone. To the colleague’s defense, I have painted over his and others faces to denounce them from the crime, leaving only possible suspects due to the nature of the crime committed; for example, I did not delete those accused of “Larceny” or “Injury to Real Property.”
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December 31, 1969 at 7:00 pm
February 3, 2010 at 12:00 am
*Update: 1/3/2010A “Collegiate in Cuffs” (see Jailbird, Pitt County Edition Volume 1, Issue 7) student contacted me last night and expressed his dissatisfaction with the posters I put around the SOAD. The student pleaded with me to remove his face from the poster because he was in no way responsible for the stolen sculpture, and even offered that I search his home for proof. Unfortunately, his information was acquired through public knowledge and the issue is now a moral dilemma. However, the poster did imply that a collegiate was responsible for the sculpture, even if the publication noted an unrelated crime. To this I am at fault and do not wish to slander anyone. To the colleague’s defense, I have painted over his and others faces to denounce them from the crime, leaving only possible suspects due to the nature of the crime committed; for example, I did not delete those accused of “Larceny” or “Injury to Real Property.”
February 3, 2010 at 9:58 am
Your sculpture is being held behind multiple layers be men wearing unsharp masks. Do as we say or the layers will be merged and flattened. There’s a Bridge between you and your sculpture. The bridge runs over a river of potassium ferricyanide and ferric ammonium citrate. If you try to increase our exposure, we will destroy the gradient map. This is not a chromatic aberration-we have high dynamic range. You may try to reach us at f64.5000K You are warned…do not go to the SOAD authorities…
February 3, 2010 at 5:24 pm
New comment on your post #667 “Stolen Sculpture”
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