That’s is a good idea. but it doesn’t really appropriate for road. it will be dirty when someone or something pass it. And finally that fabric will break.. may be it can change with other material which same like the road but have same form and color like the fabric..

Maybe this could be a reminder to the government that these holes need repaired!?! I remember as a kid we had a pothole so big near our house that I put a sign in it that said “China” with an arrow pointing down. Didn’t seem to help speed things up though.

Stan Horst
Publisher: BetterBenches.com

LoL. Very good ideea ! I wounder how many holes are ? Has enough material to fill all of them ?

Actually this is a good idea. But I had one doubt, in rainy reason are not the clothes come out side? Any way thanks for posting this.

Not practical but pretty. at least at the start. Fill it up with resin maybe? To make it hard and durable without getting soggy and dirty.

Or use Lego like this one artist (whose name I forgot) does to reconstruct walls and such.

There is a similar projet filling cracks in walls with LEGO bricks. Love the colours lightning up those gray cities.

They’d hold a lot of water, which expands when frozen. I’m afraid that they would do more damage to a road than just an empty pothole.

I think you guys are referring to the ‘Dispatchwork’ project by Artist Jan Vormann?

Aesthetically, this is of course better than the rigid Lego bricks. But, it still fall short on the practical side. It may be hard to balance out the scale, but maybe over time someone will come out with an idea to overcome all of these issues.

A) you people commenting on the durability of the fabric are missing the point – this is ‘art’. And you are dolts.

B) This idea has been done a hundred times before. It’s played. The ‘artist’ just reinterpreted something they saw.
I’m not trying to start a conversation about inspiration versus imitation… this is obviously a rip off idea and the artist knows it.

Mark, are you seriously suggesting that only “original” art (whatever that is) is worthwhile? When you find one type of artwork that nobody’s ever done before, you let me know. Everything is derivative.

@Emily -
You’re retarded, right? It’s art, not an asphalt filler.

@J

Oh, my bad. I totally forgot that art was allowed to harm public property. Or is that vandalism?

I’m totally retarded. I’m mentally retarded and have difficulties grasping abstract concepts like bullshit.

No, I’m not. I’m a special ed teacher. Thanks for being so offensive.

By the way? Sidewalk chalk could’ve done this as effectively and posed less of an environmental hazard. Yes, I said it.

Charlie,
Perhaps I was a little harsh. I agree that all art is derivative to some extent…

And although the ‘beautifying urban space’ thing has been done a bunch, I guess what bothers me most about this piece is that the execution is kind of ugly (in my opinion).

The colors clash and as a whole it resembles pages from a ‘Learning about the Large Intestine and Other Fun Organs’ coloring book.

Kudos! What a neat way of thkninig about it.

“Fitch drew the cutter again along the split. A spray of concrete dust and blood mist dirtied him. (…) Guts oozed from the hole. Intestinal coils, purple and bloodied, boiled up wetly in a meat mass. Billy had thought the entrails of the city would be its torn-up under-earth (…), had thought Fitch would bring up a corner of wires, worms and plumbing to interpret. The literalism of this knack shocked him.” – China Miéville, “Kraken”