It's a Sony

It's a Sony
Originally uploaded by nofrills.

At the front yard gallery (?) of Hara Museum of Contemporary Art.

An old SONY Trinitron Colour TV. Probably from the 1980s. We have almost forgot this type of TV. We even don't remember how to switch this on. Only after I thought for a while, I remembered I used to pull and push the knob. (I'm stupid the knob is out of the frame.)

This was placed just behind the Pink Telephone. While a pay phone was usually put outside a building, an outside TV is unusual.

Pink

Pink
Originally uploaded by nofrills.

At the front yard gallery (?) of Hara Museum of Contemporary Art.

This kind of public telephone (Pink Telephone) has now long gone... 20 years or so. Basically the artist put these "useless" objects there, probably to remind people of their "long-gone" recent past.

Of this kind of feeling, we use the word なつかしい [na-tsu-ka-shi-i].

And this "piece of art" looks very ironic to me. A なつかしい telephone from the 1970s or 1980s that doesn't work any more and has retired can make "a piece of art" in a museum's front yard. Not so on the street, but after seeing this at the museum, you'd feel somewhat different when you see this pink pay-phone on the street. This is how art can make a difference, I suppose...