I believe this is the most unusual drinking fountain I’ve ever seen. It’s an interesting exhibit spotted at Calgary’s Sparks Center — a family science and discovery-oriented museum.
I thought the exhibit did an excellent job of pointing out how perceptions affect us at a deep level. We generally think of toilets as waste disposal systems, and associate them with urine, vomit, feces and such. Definitely don’t think of a toilet as a source of drinking water.
Who would drink from this most unusual fountain? Someone dying of thirst certainly would. My dogs would love it! But as it was a cool day and I was not thirsty, I passed on the opportunity.
What would you do?
And not the first time for a toilet as a museum exhibit. The Guggenheim in New York last year had a solid-gold working replica by Maurizio Cattelan, entitled America, that could be used by visitors.
And, famously, in 1917, Marcel Duchamp challenged concepts of art and esthetics by exhibiting a ‘readymade,’ a standard urinal turned on its edge, signed as if by an artist, and labeled… Fountain.
I keep a toilet roll on my work bench. Perfect size for drying WD 40 off my machine parts and grease off my fingers.
Everyone who spots it says it’s disgusting.
Maybe I should call it Bathroom Tissue !