Friday, July 21, 2000
Pig Parade: Periodic Pig
Artist aligns scientific elements
By Owen Findsen
The Cincinnati Enquirer
This is 83rd in a series spotlighting pigs from the Big Pig Gig Public Art Project in Cincinnati, Covington and Newport. Find past pig profiles and event details at Cincinnati.com/bigpiggig
Artist: Amy Kettner, 24, Centerville, Ohio.
Sponsor: Cognis Corp.
This pig's pen: Museum Center at Union Terminal.
You were inspired by: When I was looking for an idea, I looked in an old Betty Crocker cookbook and saw one of those butcher's charts showing the different cuts of meat on a pig. It reminded me of a periodic table of the elements, the big chart with names like magnesium, calcium, titanium.
What's the pig idea? I didn't want to just decorate a pig. I thought it would be funny to do the elemental parts of the pig like the periodic table. I marked the pig into sections and labeled the appropriate parts things like pickledpigsfeetium, buttsteakium, baconus, chitlinsium. It has all the major pork elements as well as the filler elements such as scrapple and dogfoodium.
The sponsor is in the chemical business and I thought it would be a good fit.
You want people to look at this pig and think: I hope it gets kids curious about science. The sponsor likes it so much that they want me to make little pigs in the same design to use in their chemistry in the classroom program.
Completing the project took: I took half-days off work and finished it in a week and a half.
What's the matter?: Automotive paints, lettering stencils.
Your high on the hog was: While I was painting the pig, it was covered with stencils. It was very gratifying when I took off the stencils to see that it looked like my original design.
Pig peeve: Trying to fit a two-dimensional chart on a three-dimensional pig.
Best pig tale: When I was blocking off the lines, I had to protect parts of the pig from getting paint on it. My husband wrapped the bottom of the pig in plastic to protect it and it looked like the pig was wearing a diaper.
What artistic movement most affected the outcome of this pig? This is not a designed pig. It is a pig that's meant to be read for content.
The materials cost: $500.
Do you consider this art or porkography? It's not art. It's just fun.
If your pig starred in a movie, who would you cast to play the role? Maybe Steve Martin, because he can be nerdy and funny.
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