2700: A Garfield Comic
| A Garfield Comic |
 Made by: David Morgan-Mar |
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Q. To begin with, could you describe this work?
A. Yes, of course. What I've done is change a glass of water into a Garfield comic without altering the accidents of the glass of water.
Q. The accidents?
A. Yes. The colour, feel, weight, size ...
Q. Do you mean that the glass of water is a symbol of a Garfield comic?
A. No. It's not a symbol. I've changed the physical substance of the glass of water into that of a Garfield comic.
Q. It looks like a glass of water.
A. Of course it does. I didn't change its appearance. But it's not a glass of water, it's a Garfield comic.
Q. Can you prove what you've claimed to have done?
A. Well, yes and no. I claim to have maintained the physical form of the glass of water and, as you can see, I have. However, as one normally looks for evidence of physical change in terms of altered form, no such proof exists.
Q. Haven't you simply called this glass of water a Garfield comic?
A. Absolutely not. It is not a glass of water anymore. I have changed its actual substance. It would no longer be accurate to call it a glass of water. One could call it anything one wished but that would not alter the fact that it is a Garfield comic.
Q. Isn't this just a case of the emperor's new clothes?
A. No. With the emperor's new clothes people claimed to see something that wasn't there because they felt they should. I would be very surprised if anyone told me they saw a Garfield comic.
Q. Was it difficult to effect the change?
A. No effort at all. But it took me years of work before I realised I could do it.
Q. When precisely did the glass of water become a Garfield comic?
A. When I put the water in the glass.
Q. Does this happen every time you fill a glass with water?
A. No, of course not. Only when I intend to change it into a Garfield comic.
Q. Then intention causes the change?
A. I would say it precipitates the change.
Q. You don't know how you do it?
A. It contradicts what I feel I know about cause and effect.
Q. It seems to me that you are claiming to have worked a miracle. Isn't that the case?
A. I'm flattered that you think so.
Q. But aren't you the only person who can do something like this?
A. How could I know?
Q. Could you teach others to do it?
A. No, it's not something one can teach.
Q. Do you consider that changing the glass of water into a Garfield comic constitutes an art work?
A. Yes.
Q. What precisely is the art work? The glass of water?
A. There is no glass of water anymore.
Q. The process of change?
A. There is no process involved in the change.
Q. The Garfield comic?
A. Yes. The Garfield comic.
Q. But the Garfield comic only exists in the mind.
A. No. The actual Garfield comic is physically present but in the form of the glass of water. As the glass of water was a particular glass of water, the Garfield comic is also a particular Garfield comic. To conceive the category 'Garfield comic' or to picture a particular Garfield comic is not to understand and experience what appears to be a glass of water as a Garfield comic. Just as it is imperceivable, it is also inconceivable.
Q. Did the particular Garfield comic exist somewhere else before it took the form of a glass of water?
A. No. This particular Garfield comic did not exist previously. I should also point out that it does not and will not ever have any other form than that of a glass of water.
Q. How long will it continue to be a Garfield comic?
A. Until I change it.
Original strip: A glass of water.
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{a photo of what appears to be a glass of water sitting on a shelf}
