Monthly Archives: March 2010

Rhodes Scholar Appre­ci­ates the Dead Mule!

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Ahhhh! Rachel Maddow becomes a fan of our Mule. I'm so proud, so very proud, that a Rhodes Scholar would find Mules so interesting. Really, read it for yourself, it's right here, Maddow is a culinary mule... so when we use Glen Beckian-style of logical linear conclusions, Rachel Maddow loves The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature! Here's an excerpt from "Politics Daily" ... read more

The Dead Mule School of South­ern Literature

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After recovering from the astounding body blow that sprung from the fist of an English teacher who corrected my spelling of "ya'll" into "y'all" - I began to publish more fiction and creative non-fiction for the April issue of the Mule. Over 35 new fiction pieces, a half-dozen essays, and some smash-grab poetry will be available in the wee hours of April 1. And that's no fooling. ... read more

Artist’s Books

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Have com­pleted 12 artist’s books. My goal is to keep mak­ing them until I run out of mate­ri­als — in other words — for­ever. The books thus far are cre­ated from:
Dante. a Geography/​History text­book 1939. Col­lege trigonom­e­try text­book. Col­lege math­e­mat­ics text­book. 1964 McCall’s mag­a­zine. 1968 1001 Inte­rior Design magazine.

In the early 1970s the artist’s book began to be rec­og­nized as a dis­tinct genre, and with this recog­ni­tion came the begin­nings of crit­i­cal appre­ci­a­tion of and debate on the subject.

I have to do more research. Since I live in a cul­tural vac­uum, with input from inter­net and tv and magazines/​books, it sur­prises when I dis­cover my out­sider art is com­ing indoors. Like the JAB.

Con­tinue read­ing →

Artist’s Books As Envi­ron­men­tal Art — The Sok Gallery

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If everything old is new again, then my creating artist's books from discarded textbooks is Vintage NuvoFluxus in its essence. The artist formerly known as me completed 15 Artist Books last week, complete with a sok for each and a cotton-string tag explaining the idea behind the book. Portrait of same to be included in Sok Gallery of Outsider Texts* which is scheduled to go online early April 2010. *that's not a link ... read more

Reces­sion Proof Art

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I'm to the "Frame-in-progress" stage for this 3D piece. That means it will need a hanging place soon and this is where I usually stall. The photo has been scanned and used many times and the original deserves to be included in a place of honor. The woman is sublime, the every-woman of southern roots. I buy photos, black and white preferred, at flea markets and yard sales. Occasionally I get lucky and find an ebay auction with the old photos but the prices have gotten out of hand. ... read more