Wednesday, May 31, 2000

This porker is an ironic driving force

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By Owen Findsen
The Cincinnati Enquirer

        This is the 32nd in the series spotlighting a pig from the Big Pig Gig Public Art Project taking place in Cincinnati, Covington and Newport. Past pig profiles can be found on enquirer.com. Click on the Big Pig Gig icon.

        Artist: Douglas P. Smith, 29, artist, downtown.

        Sponsor: Klosterman's Baking Co.

        This pig's pen: Riverside Drive, Covington.

        You were inspired by: It's indicative of my own work. I usually do figurative scenes of people and automobiles in front of apocalyptic backdrops, with things like rockets attacking.

        You want people to look at this pig and think: I want them to see what they want to see. It's not so much apocalyptic as it is ironic.

        Completing the project took: About two weeks.

        Swine over matter: Artists' oil paints.

        Your high on the hog was: I was grateful that the sponsor let me do my own idea without any interference, even though they didn't know who I was.

        Pig peeve: There's a lot of surface area to cover.

        Best pig tale: I sleep in my studio, and the varnish I used to coat the pig was so toxic that I had to sleep at night wearing the respirator I bought to paint the pig.

        My favorite pork dish: I don't eat much pork.

        The materials cost: About $150.

       

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