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One of K’s students who digs my work asked her if I would make him a seal so - after way too much figuring out and overthinking - I chopped up some old scissors and made this washer-balancing little guy.
Calicornication: Postcards of Giant Produce (1909)
via Public Domain Review:
Produced by the prolific San Francisco–based publisher Edward H. Mitchell, each card features a single rail car rolling through lush farmland. Aboard are gargantuan, luminous fruits and vegetables: dimpled navel oranges, a dusky bunch of grapes, and mottled walnuts. Placed end-to-end, the cards would make a colorful train crossing California’s fertile valleys. Unlike other, more action-packed “tall-tale” cards — filled with farmers, fisherman, and children for scale — Mitchell’s series is restrained. Sharply illuminated, the colossal cargo lean toward artwork rather than gag. “A Carload of Mammoth Apples”, green-yellow and gleaming, could have been plucked from Rene Magritte’s The Son of Man.
the (as yet) unmade
In the throes of limbo on two metal projects so here’s a list of things I’ve yet to make that I want to make:
a series / gaggle of weird little zines
a graphic novella (with or without a collaborator, though i'd prefer the former)
a narrative short film
a novella
a large metal dinosaur
a damn good track / ep that eschews my institutionalized music composition reflexes for the same visceral and improvisational central to my totally clueless – and intentionally ignorant – metalworking practice.
Do I have any of these in me still? I'd like to believe I do (99.99% that large metal dinosaur is happening this summer), but time will tell.
