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B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Sat, Jun 21, 2008 6:00 AM :D ...I tried that: http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=20545&forum=1 It became sort of a strained subject. It appears that as soon as I point out that Tiki is a genre that can be defined by a certain iconography (with the absence of that iconography making things non-Tiki), and that its humor has to adhere to that iconography to "work", people go into a huff about artistic freedom and Island Lifestyle being a part of it and all that. The fact seems to be that if folks WANT their stuff to be Tiki, it IS Tiki to them, logic arguments non-withstanding. :) P.S.: While the above plastic utensil kitchen utensil masks should maybe not be sold as "modern Tiki art", I find them quite original and funny. That yellow garden hose sprinkler top certainly has a Tiki nose shape, and for me the whole assembly works along the lines of "found art" collages. It also falls under the genre of "Tiki Humor" in the same vein than some "Tiki faces in Strange Places", like this kitchen grain mill: We get the joke and laugh, but do not consider it a piece on par with a Ryden or Shag. [ Edited by: bigbrotiki 2008-06-22 00:43 ]

:D ...I tried that: http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=20545&forum=1

It became sort of a strained subject. It appears that as soon as I point out that Tiki is a genre that can be defined by a certain iconography (with the absence of that iconography making things non-Tiki), and that its humor has to adhere to that iconography to "work", people go into a huff about artistic freedom and Island Lifestyle being a part of it and all that.
The fact seems to be that if folks WANT their stuff to be Tiki, it IS Tiki to them, logic arguments non-withstanding. :)

P.S.: While the above plastic utensil kitchen utensil masks should maybe not be sold as "modern Tiki art", I find them quite original and funny. That yellow garden hose sprinkler top certainly has a Tiki nose shape, and for me the whole assembly works along the lines of "found art" collages. It also falls under the genre of "Tiki Humor" in the same vein than some "Tiki faces in Strange Places", like this kitchen grain mill:

We get the joke and laugh, but do not consider it a piece on par with a Ryden or Shag.

[ Edited by: bigbrotiki 2008-06-22 00:43 ]

Post #388498 by bigbrotiki on Sat, Jun 21, 2008 6:00 AM