burned by art

The first art that made him laugh was made by Jeff Koons.

Three Spalding basketballs, each ball suspended in water in the sort of fishtank you usually see in a third-graders bedroom.

He saw the work at the LA County Museum of Art, LACMA, sometime in the early to mid-1980's.

Now, suddenly, it's 2012.

He thinks of all the art made since he first saw the Koons. Hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, of pieces of art--painting, sculpture, collage, video art, performance, not to mention novels, short stories, plays, poems--had been made.

What an art piece could be made of all the art that was made in the 30-plus years since he'd seen the Koons, if all the art that had been made was piled in a heap in the Nevada desert and photographed before it was burned.