Found Art sept 26: KEY

What comes to your mind when you think about a key? Sometimes you need to know where they are, and sometimes you know where they are but don't know what they're for. Last week my daughter was looking into her daddy's wallet when she found a lonely key. What is it for, she asked... he said (as a joke) "it's the key to happiness, I always carry it around in case I need to use it someday".  The real answer is that he had forgotten what it's for.

What would you do if you really had an actual key, you know the metal kind, copper or zinc or whatever.. and know you could use it in case you needed to find happiness? where could you use it? would you use it to win the lottery? or in your body  should you needed to be healthy again? I don't know what I would do with it but I think I would be too scared to use it, you know what your mother always says about being careful of what you wish for because it could come true.

Maybe I wouldn't keep it for myself but then, who to give it to? and why? and what for? is anyone more worthy of it?  This is the question I release to the world today. I will leave this card tomorrow in the passports office where I have to go get my new one.. It'll have the post it note that says "read me".

I don't know if I'll be able to take a picture of it, but I'll definitely try!

Go check Kathy LaRocco's entry for Found Art Tuesdays, here:

Kathy LaRocco Found Art Tuesdays

Update on Friday, September 29, 2006 at 06:40PM by Rosa Murillo

I didn't leave the card in the passports office after all because there was too many guards there and I was afraid I might get in trouble, besides there was a cleaning lady there and I was afraid the card might get thrown away, so instead I took a friend of mine to get some coffee and we went into a mall where they have a new starbucks! (a new thing here in Monterrey) or as we call it here: el estar-boc

so we left the card in a table and waited outside starbucks to see who found it, we had no trouble having someone pick it up, this girl sat down at the table, picked it up and put it in her bag! so this is different from what has happened in the U. S.!

this is me right before leaving starbucks reading the back of the card again, wondering if I should write it in Spanish as well, I decided not to, and leave it all in English. I imagined whoever found it would be able to understand what it said.

This is the girl who found the card (the one with the white arrow in her head) she's reading the front of the card, after a minute of looking at it she put it in her bag! yeeeeeeiiiiii!!! viva san!!

Comments

[Kathy L]

Rosa

I love this work. It is charming. I like the way you use your own handwriting/printing as part of the piece. I hate the way my handwriting/printing looks in my work so I tend to either print out what I want to say on a label maker or stamp the letters to make the words. I have to try my own lettering in my next found art tuesday work. I figure I have nothing to loose!

K

[H]

Hey! I didn’t know that you were around so I could thank you for the Found Art piece that I FOUND!!! It is amazing!! And yes, I did understand what it says, that is why I put it in my purse; I had to seize the opportunity! I thought that if it happens to be the key of happiness it would be so stupid not to keep it (just in case...) does it works? All I can say is that indeed I felt happy at the time and gave me a great topic that night with my friends!
I have been reading about this project and I hope that more artists join you everywhere. Maybe if they start to leave more artworks here in Monterrey I would be lucky enough to start my own collection!
Good luck!

[Kathy L]

WOW Rosa this is awesome. What a great and thoughtful comment from H. I can't wait till I get a comment. You will be the first to know. I am feeling better so I hope to "play" with the new topic this Friday :)

k