Work of Art--Episode 5--Whores for Audi

If I were a contestant on Work of Art for this week's challenge I would have done a portrait of the judges as whores on Ninth Avenue in the 1970s with a big Audi car as their pimp. How do you like that, China Chow or whatever your name is? Such blatant product placement. The episode opens with Simon waking everyone up at 5:30 AM--with some gratuitous shots of the typically sleepy-eyed Miles getting out bed possibly naked--to meet him in front of the building for some shameless promotion. They will be driving through Manhattan in the sponsor's car to the sponsor's showroom to see how many times they can say the sponsor's name.

Once in the Audi Forum, which sounds like a letters column or the site of a debate society, they are given a half-hour to draw inspiration from a car! Miles promptly takes a nap and decided to take a photo of an empty space. Exciting (not)--and he almost wins--again. I will say his work is oddly beautiful but I didn't get the police barricade stuff. The promos showed him flirting with Nicole and touting him as a Casanova, when in fact it was just some brief silly talk. Yawn!

Once again Jaclyn uses males' fascination with her to create a meditation on how sexy she is. She spouts off on how difficult it is to be so attractive while the camera zooms in on her cleavage.

Ryan painted yet another self-portrait while Mark made a boring grid thing and Jamie assembled an art-school project while little figures of herself which belong on greeting cards for girls' 16th birthdays. I think she has a future at Hallmark. She deserved the boot this week.

Eric is beginning to display his jealousy of the others and it looks like it will explode next week. He still resents Jaclyn for not acknowledging his idea for her piece last week and is angry Miles always gets in the top two even though he takes naps at the drop of a hat.

My parnter watched the show for the first time last week and was fascianted with the interplay of the personalities.

Leaderboard
Miles--two wins--death portrait of Nao; sleep sculpture with concrete anuses
Abdi--one win--explosive heads
Jaclyn--one win--photo and mirror collage about how sexy she is
John (eliminated)--one win--Time Machine book cover