Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Monoscopic






Monoscopic.2012. This booklet is a meditation (just barely) on the pros and cons of having only a single point of view. It was included in Eyelevel Gallery's Reshelving Initiative 5.
B&W laser print, 6 pp., 8.5 x 5.25"

Download a PDF of Monoscopic


Friday, October 19, 2012

Carpe Libris



Like a lot of people who buy used books, I’ve managed to accumulate quite a few that feature the former owners' names.  Most often, people write their names on the endpapers. Sometimes a name will be stamped, printed on an address-style label, or will be featured on a decorative bookplate.  Below is a list of titles with the names of people who, at one time, owned a book that I now possess. (I'll update this list with new acquisitions as needed.) 

 This post is kind of a public announcement and acknowledgement to the former owners (or their ghosts). Obviously this is not as serious as the obligatory adoption notices you'll find in the classified section of a newspaper, but that practice keeps coming to mind. Anyway, I’m grateful that these works are part of my collection, and I’m happy I have some common interests with a slew of specific strangers, however remote.



John Ashbery, Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror, Albert Tsugawa
Walter Benjamin, Illuminations, Robert W. Paisley
Bergson/Merdith, Comedy, Caroline Trapp
Yves Bonnefoy, Early Poems, Pour Elisa from Gareth
Yves Bonnefoy, Poems 1959 to 1975, Harry M. Sartain (?)
Henri Bosco, Farm Theotime, To Violet from Elizabeth
Dino Buzzati, Tartar Steppe, The Smiths
Bernard Cache, Earth Moves, Marc
Paul Celan, Poems of Paul Celan, Graham Shearing 89
Robert Creeley, Selected Poems, To Debbie from Steven
e.e. cummings, Collected Poems, Rosemary F. Levehter
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Cruso, Allen C. Kaetzky
William Faulkner, The Hamlet, Suzanne
Gustav Flaubert, Temptation of S. Anthony, James D. O’brien
James, G. Frazer, Golden Bough, George W. Waters
Hamlin Garland, Main Traveled Roads, Peter S. Marlee (?)
J. W. Goethe, Elective Affinities, Max Jones
William Golding, The Spire, Amy Simons
Julian Green, The Dark Journey, Sadie Katz New York City
Martin Heidegger, Language, Thought, and Poetry, Elmore J. De Grange
Victor Hugo, Notre Dame de Paris, Juania Lee Davis
Franz Kafka, Amerika, Richard B. Vowels Vice Council of the United States
Franz Kafka, The Trial,  Phelps/a. Rehner/T. Bozik/M. Carlsen
D. H. Lawrence, Pansies, Clint Harvic
D. H. Lawrence, Selected Poems, R.K.
D. H. Lawrence, Viking Portable, Jim McDowell
Jakov Lind, Soul of Wood, G. Marloy Gaspar (?)
Stephane Mallarme, Poems of Mallarme, I. Cearrs 1955 (?)
Herman Melville, Confidence Man, Danny C. Gunnels
Herman Melville, Israel Potter, Edwin T. Moul
Herman Melville, Mardi, Eva Felicite Middlebury
Herman Melville, Selected Writings, Robert W. Sauder
W.J.T. Mitchell, Iconology, Christine Versor (?)
Vladimir Nabokov, Bend Sinister, Brian C. Riley
Benjamin Peret, From the Hidden Storehouse, Jim Tnivgham (?)
St. John Perse, Eclogues, Robert Strew (?)
Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way, Mary E. Schawrtz
Ezra Pound, Selected Cantos, di Piro 775 5125
Rainer Maria Rilke, New Poems, Mike Timmins
Ranier Maria Rilke, Stories of God, Manny Theiner
Jules Supervielle, Selected Writings, To Tim from Robert
Nathanial West, Miss Lonely Hearts and Day of the Locust, Amy Slavin

Thursday, October 18, 2012

School of Medicine

School of Medicine (Bridge), 2012, Ink on paper, 8 x 10."

I make up a lot of songs. I like some of them enough that I record them in my basement (electric guitar and yelling) and put them on CDRs.  When I'm not too self conscious about the whole enterprise, I'll give them to friends to listen to.

I often make drawings for (of?, in response to?, in spite of?) these songs. Here is one from a group of songs I've been working on. If asked what the song's about (who would ask such a thing?), I'd say team sports and ineffectual shamans.

I'll try (I don't know how hard) to post some recordings down the road.

Saturday, October 13, 2012

lip to rest on










A Lip To Rest On. 2009.  Drawings and daydreams unfold (and close up, and unfold again, and again) in this homage to an architectural oddity I discovered in the closet of an apartment I used to live in.
B&W photocopy, 7 pp., stapled ,6 x 4.5”

This booklet can be found at Printed Matter.


Friday, October 12, 2012

...up a storm






I go through some periodic bursts of activity where I make a lot of scribbled drawings.  More or less provisional picture-making marks swirl together with verbal fragments.What's happening here is I'm daydreaming with a pen in my hand trying to "work out" some jumpy thoughts around a given observation or memory. These source observations or memories usually haven't gelled into anything too unified so the drawings that arise are a record of what's available to me (what's present?) before any highly unified contour or syntax can set in--pretty much standard early 20th-century automatism.