Work

Don B. nailing stucco wire

SEPTEMBER FACES

There doesn't seem to be as much future as I used to think there was.

Back to wage-slavery

Boojum

Camper

Actually this is me but from February not September. I was drawing hooded figures at Southern Exposure's Monster Drawing Rally. I think I found this picture on Megan Wilson's blog so I guess she took it. Thanks Megan.

SM 1962

The pencil drawing is by me and this bottom image is Untitled (Man at Table with Chair on Table), 1990 by an artist named Teun Hocks. Two different ways of looking at one's 50th birthday. I suppose it's up to me to decide which way is best.

A couple of days ago I finally made a sculpture that I've been wanting to make for at least five or six years. It's called "'Load' (aka 'Sled')" and is my updated version of one of Beuys' sleds. Instead of sled, felt, flashlight & fat mine has skateboard, fleece, cel phone & (not pictured here) a 3600 Calorie Emergency Ration Food Bar. Coast Guard-approved, of course. I'm going to donate this piece to Intersection for the Arts next week for their "State of the Nation" auction, which is Thursday, June 29, 7 PM (Live Auction 8:30 PM).

SFMOMA Artists Gallery opening

Just a couple shots of Wednesday night's opening:

SFMOMA Artists Gallery installed

Yesterday I installed 22 pieces at SFMOMA Artists Gallery at Fort Mason. They are all from the Target series, ie. unrolled & rerolled paper dartboards. Almost all of the ones in this show are brand new. The opening is on June 7th. Here are some dartboards in my studio waiting to be unwound:
And here are some shots from yesterday:

Post-Empire

His knees encircled with blood seas. Some days, he says, are troubled, counter to, rather than survival and the continuation. Fighting to keep his lips from quivering.

Rumsfeld, Rumsfeld.

POST-EMPIRE, my prosaic, poetic & visual meditation on the graspings and the whitherings of the tentacles of empire, has just been published by Blue Lion Books (Espoo, Finland & West Hartford, Connecticut) as a print-on-demand book available through CaféPress at:

http://www.cafepress.com/bluelionbooks66

Cover design is by Jukka-Pekka Kervinen and text design is by Peter Ganick.

Blue Lion Books publishes experimental poetry, visual poetry, and fiction. They specialize in books over 250 pages long, believing that an idea, if expressed, should be expressed in its fullest manner. Visit http://bluelionbooks.info for catalogue and submission info.

Firestarter I waver in front of l'Hotel-God, between l'ambiance hatched in the clutches of pure physics and the mergez/frites which assembles me. Noise, speech, rumors appear suddenly on the street.

The moment of turbulence is imagination scattered all over the swerve, charging and releasing accumulated energy. Then c'est the hard return towards closed eyes and the rain fall to n'en more.

I am réincarnée thirty thousandths times the bad beer and Blaster Ghetto d'avant war (Gulf. The First.) on the quays of Seine, the crowned whole in the grip of unimaginable shit-crossed discrepancies of scale.

Other recent written work of mine is online at:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/xstream/?skip=8
http://www.20six.co.uk/mdr/archive/2005/09/
http://www.20six.co.uk/mdr/archive/2005/10/

and some older visual work is at:

http://collageworks.blogsome.com/