Oh-me-nerves! :)
that would be a good project for a school or group (hang cards on  clothing)

painting cows is a bit  farrrrrr out there lol
david

Gary Blankenship wrote:

> Poets found in pastureJim Fitzgerald
> ASSOCIATED PRESS
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> Published 12/3/2002
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>      PURCHASE - Any artist can paint a cow, but Nathan Banks uses
> bovines as his canvas.
>      Mr. Banks, 22, a student at Purchase College, painted single words
> (from "a" to "existential") on the flanks of about 60 cows near his upstate
> New York home, then let them wander around to see if they could
> compose poetry.
>      Holsteins and Jerseys with names like Elsie and Maggie came up with
> phrases including "eccentric art," "performance as cow environment" and
> Mr. Banks' favorite, "organic conceptual art as poetry."
>      One animal seemed especially inspired. With "away" written on her
> side, she broke loose from the herd for a while.
>      The "Cow Project," with videotape and photos of the bovine bards, goes
> on display at the college Thursday.
>      "The idea is that the artist sets up the situation and then it carries
> through on its own," Mr. Banks said in an interview last week.
>      The entire three-day episode in mid-September was documented by
> Mr. Banks and a couple of dozen other students.
>      "It was peculiar," said Gerry Ruestow, who let Mr. Banks use so-called
> tail paint, a harmless substance that eventually flakes off, on his dairy
> herd in Sidney Center. "Those art people tend to do things that are a little
> bit outside the box."
>      Mr. Banks said the project cost him about $1,000 and he had to
> overcome a few obstacles. A half-dozen dairy farmers rejected the idea
> before Mr. Ruestow and his wife, Susan, agreed to let him use their Farm.
>      "There was a big concern that the cows would be stressed and give
> less milk," Mr. Banks said. Mr. Ruestow said milk production instead
> increased slightly, "probably because the cows were a bit more active.
> The cows were as interested in the observers as the observers were in
> the cows."
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