CMU School of Drama


Monday, March 24, 2008

You Still Suck

Over recent months, work done by designers has been disappearing from the hallways. Just last night a large model box that was constructed from many, many student hours evaporated. During Christmas, models with similar investments of work and creativity vanished. Before spring break, two beautiful student paintings were plucked off of the walls of a third floor hallway.

Why would someone take this work? What possible value, other than their intrinsic beauty, can these pieces have for you? Disappearing ipods, laptops and cell phones are bad enough, but how can anyone justify stealing Art, which is a physical embodiment of someone's creative life, or some would even say, soul.

If you were the person who stole this work, unless your motivation was jealously or destructiveness, I trust that your conscience will compel you to return the work. I dare you. Return it in the middle of the night if that's easier: it can't ever really belong to you.

1 comment:

Dave said...

I hadn't heard anything about this until now but it is appalling. The only motivation I could think of stealing something like that from the hallways would be to take a model box because you are to lazy to make your own, which would be hard to get away with. Stealing art is just a stab at its creator.