This is sickening!

[Dave S]

Nam June Paik has been an internationally famous artist specializing in video sculptures for decades. I first became aware of his work back in the early seventies, well before I became a television collector, and I have to confess that I found his work intriguing. Maybe it was just the seeds of the appreciation for the technology that have grown to become the full-bore pathological television collecting the consumes me today. Although I don't remember seeing any classic sets in his earlier sculptures, that may be just because I wasn't tuned into the subject. Now, although I have great respect for this artist, I wholeheartedly agree that seeing some desirable collectibles turned into raw materials for a sculpture doesn't leave me with a good feeling. Perhaps he simply needs to be brought up to speed on the subject. I've been utterly charmed by his sculptures using contemporary or recent-vintage material. Perhaps he will respond to a thoughtful pleas from the collecting community to forgoe using vintage sets as raw material. Then he has his art and we have our sets and we all win!