accordion book for raoul, july/august 2012

exhibition of accordion notebooks at sarah valeri’s (http://sarahvaleri.wordpress.com/tag/sarah-valeri/), june 2012

photos by sarah valeri - many thanks!

VIEWS OF HERE COMES EVERYBODY, november 22nd, 2011 - march 22nd, 2012

made from: micron pen, staedtler pigment liner from mexico city, sherry, vietnamese coffee, guiness, blood, espresso, rapidograph 4x0/.18, balvenie 12 year, red wine, mcsorley’s dark, sharpie pens, ginger ale, gold ink, silver ink, orange soda (fanta), kool aid (red), burnt sienna photo retouch ink, kashmiri chai (pink)

“The beards and eyebrows of the ancients do not grow on my face.” (Shitao, 1642-1707)

“…way leads on to way..” - Bob Frost

VIEWS OF HERE COMES EVERYBODY continued

(klein finnfunnboek voor peter vos)

“It is possible that Pound is right, but I cannot go back.” (James Joyce, 1st Feb 1927, letter to Miss Weaver)

in progress…

back design for the cash pony tarot deck

dan sarna of CASH PONY!

ian saxton of CASH PONY!

greg jenkins and jeremy greene of CASH PONY!

stevo wright and charles lloyd of CASH PONY!

the cash pony tarot deck continues…

CONGRATS to CASH PONY!  $!$!$!$!$!$!$!$! http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1192096437/cash-pony-embarks-upon-the-carpal-tunnel-vision-qu?ref=live $!$!$!$!$!$!$!$!$!$!$!$!$!$!$

more from the tarot deck coming soon…

recent time spent at important culinary locations in nueva york

accordion notebook number 3:  HCE/ALP in the Age of People (Bazm u Rezm / Feasting and Fighting): dieties, subjects, devotees, reliquaries, impersonations, embodiments, trash, flora/fauna, graveyard/temple, vessels (for consumption/offering), stalagmites/stalagtites (Mostly my subway life, on Boogie Street)…

or

“The universe has a habit of deleting anachronisms.” - P.K. Dick

“…when a society consists largely of imbeciles, halfwits, blockheads, and oafs there is no point in anyone calling anyone else names.” - Javier Marias

or

“Your feet bleed, Faiz, something surely will bloom

as you water the desert simply by walking through it.” - Faiz Ahmed Faiz

or

“And so it was I entered the broken world

To trace the visionary company of love; its voice

An Instant in the wind (I know not whither hurled),

But not for long to hold each desperate choice.” - Hart Crane

or

“Hell is the static lifelessness of unrelieved viciousness. Paradise is the static lifelessness of unrelieved immaculation. Purgatory a flood of movement and vitality released by the conjunction of these two elements.” - Samuel Beckett, on Finnegans Wake

or

“My friends like my songs, and I like my songs.” - The Grouch

October 13th, 2010 - April 14th, 2011