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USA
Southwest
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San Antonio, TX
Toilet Seat Art Museum - Barney Smith
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Artist and collection
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They aren't for sale. Got it? Barney doesn't make them for that reason. He's a retired Master Plumber who discovered one day that toilet seats make a great canvas. He promised his wife he'd stop at 500, but he's well into the 600s now, and the walls of his museum (a big garage out back of his house) are covered with the results.
Some are predictable—sports teams, schools and civic organizations, but others are dedicated to plumbing, Mount St. Helens, Brad Pitt and Yakov Smirnoff. There's even the remnants of a Commodore 64 computer and pieces of the Berlin Wall. And Barney's as enthusiastic about it all as a man could be. He even made a seat in our honor, which pales considerably next to the ones for the CBS Early Show and "The View," but hey, we'll take it.
Just remember, that one's not for sale either. As Barney says, "You can't buy 'em for love or money. They're just to enjoy."
Rare Visions and Roadside Revelations
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Bibliography:
On DVD - Rare Visions and Roadside Revelations, "Back to the Breadbasket", 2004.
"Self-Made Worlds: Visionary Environments" by Roger Manley and Mark Sloan, Aperture, New York, 1997.
"Rare Visions and Roadside Revelations Coast to Coast Travel-o-Pedia" by Randy Mason, et. al., Kansas City Star Books, 2009. |
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