The Assem­blag­ist just took the pledge. It was a rather no-​duh moment. Such pledges sequester well with my re-​use and re-​think motto. Redesign means rebirth, or so I tell myself. It’s imper­a­tive that we, as humans, seek to redesign our cast-​aways. My the­ory is sim­ple — if there is not a prac­ti­cal appli­ca­tion for “used” items, they must then […]

Card #2 for UR TOY STORY: Nuvofluxus loves UR Toy Story and Jen­nifer Zoellner’s mail art projects. These are the BASE CARDS which will con­tain more good­ness when glue and et ceteras are included upon their per­son. THINK WORDS and GAMES… will post fin­ished “cards” on Mon­day. We (as in the Queen and I, roy­ally working […]

Yes, the week­end pre­vi­ous con­tained many amus­ing ele­ments. Oliver and yours truly loaded the Enter­prise rental (*upgraded due to lack of vehi­cles, amen thank you) Chrysler Town & Coun­try and took off for points north and west. First stop — Car­rboro and Chapel Hill to a woodsy retreat, a tree house stu­dio apart­ment made even more lovely by the […]

I am stymied in my 200 artist book man­u­fac­ture. The first 35 went quickly into pro­duc­tion and I uti­lized E6000 glue to cre­ate the spine. E6000 will secure a live chicken to the bumper of a Volvo. But now the book cov­ers will be com­prised of match­book cov­ers and I need small, ever so tiny, sta­ples to secure the spines. […]

I’m cur­rently involved in quite the project. My goal is 200 artist’s books (see pre­vi­ous posts) but rather than enclose the books in some type of box­like con­trap­tion of my own choos­ing, I’m going to give them all away. I have large, heavy card­board tubes (given to me by local freestyle site par­tic­i­pant) that are 2 – 4 feet […]

Oppor­tu­ni­ties for accom­plish­ing things are greater to-​day than they have been at any time dur­ing the last cen­tury — per­haps greater than ever. The world is in a state of flux. Flux presages change; change means oppor­tu­nity. Democ­racy is not dead. If it were, words such as these could not even be thought, let alone writ­ten down. No […]

As absolutely phe­nom­e­nal as this event sounds to me, I just don’t see any­thing like it ever hap­pen­ing within the con­fines of east­ern North Car­olina. It is truly an event fraught with flux moments, per­haps it’s a happening’s hap­pen­ing and occurs with­out our know­ing it because we are all in a fugue state (ever read Walker Percy’s The Last […]

Yes­ter­day was tough. I spent my adult­hood think­ing peo­ple were silly for antic­i­pat­ing bad days. “Get in con­trol of your emo­tions,” I’d say. “If you can think ahead then think pos­i­tive.” Then came the days pre­ced­ing April 13^th, 2010 — the day that would have been my Mom’s birth­day AND my brother John’s. We’d spent the last ten […]

Went up to Williamson, NC yes­ter­day to enter a cou­ple of assem­blage pieces in the Mar­tin County Arts Council’s annual Fine Arts Show. It’s a small town arts coun­cil, served by vol­un­teers and accord­ing to local Beau­fort County Arts Coun­cil Direc­tor Joey Toler, they have no paid admin­is­tra­tor, but I see they do have an inter­net pres­ence. Googling […]

Grand­son Oliver (age 5) and I are cre­at­ing tat­toos today. At least that’s what he calls them. We’re scan­ning old doc­u­ments, print­ing the scan on a laser printer, cov­er­ing the printed piece of paper with clear con­tact paper, and then — we use the han­dle of a spat­ula to rub and rub the ink into the con­tact paper. Then! We […]

Thought of FluxLife this morn­ing. Last night, around 9 pm, the phone rang and I didn’t answer, just let it go to voice­mail. It was from Florida, though, so I was afraid it was Bil­lie or Janis, and so — checked my mes­sages first thing this morn­ing. The odd­est mes­sage — it was a tired, gravely, tobacco-​rough hoarse voice of a man who left […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

My goal, 200 artist books, seems almost attain­able. I’m to 60+ books and the end of April (my self-​imposed dead­line) looms far not near. Yesterday’s addi­tions derived from a new source! The Water­gate Tapes… I’m fold­ing the book that inspired my win­ning 3-​D piece — “Fish­ing for Nixon”. Aged paper­backs fold nicely, thank you very much. The gallery phởtos […]

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 […]

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 phở­tos, black […]

Sent my two 4“x6” Book About Death objects/​pieces to Wales today. Welsh addresses con­fuse me and I hope my enve­lope is cor­rectly done. Y Sti­w­dio. Tynllan.Llanelltyd .Dolgellau.Gwynedd LL40 2SU . Wales UK That’s what I know to write on the enve­lope. The post­cards would go via the vir­gin naked look but Wales is so very far away, Momma, my […]

Some of the odd­est items in my col­lec­tion would have to be my boy-​hero nov­els from the early 190s to the 1930’s. No decent segue here — bear with me.… I grew up in the days of long car trips spent play­ing either car tag bingo or lis­ten­ing to my par­ents talk about the past. Oh, and say­ing, “Mom, […]

Using a fold­ing tech­nique I picked up online (like a tramp dur­ing fleet week, the tem­plate screamed at me from across the dock), new books spring forth (not fall back) from the stu­dio. Acquired a 1938 sixth grade geog­ra­phy book “The New World Past and Present” and after read­ing all about the South after the Civil War which wasn’t […]

I stum­bled into an amaz­ing cacaphony of match­books about three years ago. Michael Cable’s Wood­side Antiques, an auc­tion house in Far­mville North Car­olina, offered box loads of stuff at the end of a large estate sale. Cable is a mar­velous auc­tion­eer who inserts bits of trivia with every round of bid­ding. I hes­i­tate to admit how much of […]

I got all happy-​grab and com­mit­ted to five (5) can­vases for the Beau­fort County Art Show fundraiser. See here for details. Joey Toler, neigh­bor and head o’the arts coun­cil, was inspired by sim­i­lar fundrais­ers held by sim­i­lar arts coun­cils, knew he had a great con­fla­gra­tion of artis­ti­cal peo­ple within hol­ler­ing dis­tance of down­town. When I deliv­ered my […]

Welsh artist Sonja Ben­skin Mesher is cre­at­ing an install­ment of the inter­na­tional “A Book About Death” series. The link is for the Call for Sub­mis­sions page. Dead­line is March 16, 2010 for .jpgs of artist’s sub­mis­sions for this seg­ment of the Inter­na­tional Exhi­bi­tion. Obvi­ously this is an abbre­vi­ated post — much more shall be said regarded this […]

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