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Fifteenth Series: Yesterday’s News, edition 50-L. This series is a comment on the rabid ferocity of the current news media and plays off the much used quote from the character Charles Tatum in the movie Ace in the Hole / The Big Carnival, 1951, “It's a good story today. Tomorrow, they'll wrap a fish in it.” Series 10 is also called Yesterday’s News but The New York Times has such great images that I wanted to make a L or large format size of this series as well. Collages placed August 16-October 31, 2010 in New York. Each collage consists of a 2 1/8 x 7 1/4 inch poly bag with an adhesive closure, real news photographs from The New York Times, all wrapped around a stolen fish image or a plastic fish with white and silver star sequins. On verso are fish stickers, one fish googly-eye, a folded xerox copy of The New York Times, and a signifier word sticker with the edition number and web-site address. Signifier words for this series are: albacore, anchovy, barracuda, bass, bluegill, catfish, cod, eel, fish, flounder, grouper, grunion, guppy, haddock, halibut, herring, koi, lamprey, mackerel, mahi-mahi, minnow, monkfish, mullet, perch, pickerel, pike, piranha, porgy, red snapper, rockfish, roughy, salmon, sand dab, sardine, scrod, shad, shark, skate, smelt, sole, stingray, sturgeon, tarpon, tilefish, trout, tuna, walleye, whitefish, and whiting. Did you see one? Tell me.

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Fourteenth Series: Note to Man Ray: Object to Be Deployed, ed. 12
This work is a play on the readymade Object to Be Destroyed, 1923 by French artist Man Ray. The work consisted of a metronome with a photograph of an eye attached to its swinging arm. The piece was intended as a silent witness watching him paint. In 1932 a second version, called Object of Destruction, was published in the avant-garde journal This Quarter, edited by André Breton. This version was an ink drawing of the Object to Be Destroyed with the following instructions; Cut out the eye from a photograph of one who has been loved but is seen no more. Attach the eye to the pendulum of a metronome and regulate the weight to suit the tempo desired. Keep going to the limit of endurance. With a hammer well-aimed, try to destroy the whole at a single blow. 1932 was the year Man Ray's lover, Lee Miller, left him to return to New York. Placed August 16-21, 2010 in New York. Each collage consists of a 1 3/4 x 2 3/4 inch glassine bag and two images of Object to Be Destroyed. On verso is the signifier word sticker, title of series, edition number and 22 photographs of my eye on hanging labels with purple string. Signifier words for this series are: Breton, eye, Eye-Metronome, hammer well-aimed, Indestructible Object, Lee Miller, Man Ray, metronome, Object of Destruction, Object to Be Destroyed, readymade, and single blow. Did you see one? Tell me.

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Thirteenth Series: February Snowstorms, ed. 7/12. In the sweltering heat and humidity of this New York August I wanted to provide a reminder of the cold days past with these images of February’s record snow storm. I hear the cicadas chirping. I see the morning glories blooming. And the Monarch butterflys are fluttering by so this summer will soon end. Drink a beer, cool down and enjoy. Placed August 5-11, 2010 in New York. Each collage consists of a 2 x 3 ½ inch poly bag, images of Brooklyn in the snow, and white and bright blue sparkly glitter. On verso is the signifier word sticker, title of series, edition number, and a tiny sticker of a snow shovel. Signifier words for this series are: 20 inches, blizzard, cold, Feb. 10, 2010, Feb. 26, 2010, ice, record-breaking, snow, snowday, snow hurricane, snow plows, snowicane. Did you see one? Tell me.

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Twelfth Series: Highlight on Gilbert Garcin, edition 15. This tiny series is a celebration of a great little Surrealist unknown to me until I got his brand new book in the mail. Placed August 4-10, 2010 in New York. Each collage consists of a 2 x 3 ½ inch poly bag, images of the artist’s work (torn out of that great new book), and red thread. On verso is sand, 1, 2, or 3 tiny cast faces, and the signifier word sticker with title and edition number. Signifier words for this series are: auto-portrait, dream-like, enactment, laughs, miniscule model, Mister G., montage, Mr. Everybody, parody, piled-up things, pyschoanalysis, simulacres, sisyphus, small theater, and surrealist. Did you see one? Tell me.

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Eleventh Series: Homage to Alice Neel, edition 12. Placed August 4-10, 2010 in New York. I admire Neel’s paintings, legacy, and influence. But my favorite Neel is not one of her revealing portraits but the use of plants in one of her still life works titled Philodendron, 1970. And not just this painting but the way that plant pervasively peeks into other paintings like Priscilla Johnson at the Speed Museum. And, I like the way she makes me think about philodendrons and other pet house plants. Each collage consists of a 2 x 3 ½ inch poly bag, multiple images of my photographs of my mother’s philodendron back lit with afternoon light and printed on semi transparent velum paper, with plain flat sequins in yellow, green, gold, blue. On verso is the signifier word sticker, title of series, edition number, and a tiny sticker of the Priscilla Johnson painting. Signifier words for this series are: collector of souls, communist, greenwich village, havana, philadelphia, portrait painter, spanish harlem, and WPA. Did you see one? Tell me.

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Tenth Series: Yesterday’s News, edition 100. This series is a comment on the rabid ferocity of the current news media and plays off the much used quote from the character Charles Tatum in the movie Ace in the Hole / The Big Carnival, 1951, “It's a good story today. Tomorrow, they'll wrap a fish in it.” Collages placed July 27-September 30, 2010 in New York. Each collage consists of a 2 x 3 ½ inch poly bag, real news photographs from The New York Times, all wrapped around a stolen fish image or a plastic fish (the real ones smell too much), with red star sequins. On verso are fish stickers, one fish googly-eye, a folded xerox copy of The New York Times, and a signifier word sticker with the edition number and web-site address. Signifier words for this series are: albacore, anchovy, barracuda, bass, bluegill, catfish, cod, eel, fish, flounder, grouper, grunion, guppy, haddock, halibut, herring, koi, lamprey, mackerel, mahi-mahi, minnow, monkfish, mullet, perch, pickerel, pike, piranha, porgy, red snapper, rockfish, roughy, salmon, sand dab, sardine, scrod, shad, shark, skate, smelt, sole, stingray, sturgeon, tarpon, tilefish, trout, tuna, walleye, whitefish, and whiting. Did you see one? Tell me.

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Ninth Series: Homage to Walker Evans, edition 50. "Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long." In 1938, Walker Evans began surreptitiously photographing people on the New York City subway. With his camera hidden in his coat—the lens peeking through a buttonhole—he captured the faces of riders hurtling through the dark tunnels, wrapped in their own private thoughts. By 1940-41, Evans had made over six hundred photographs. This series is based on my semi-clandestine photographs of people on the subway. Lacking Evans’ technological finesse I shot these images from my lap on my iphone. Placed July 27-August 30, 2010 in New York. Each collage consists of a 2 x 3 ½ inch poly bag and my photograph - some in color and some in B&W - on the front with red star sequins. On verso is a camera sticker, red star sequins, a sample of Evans’ photographs, a blurb on the series, and a signifier word sticker with the edition number and the web-site address. Signifier words for this series are: anonymous, concealed, cross section, eavesdrop, educate your eye, listen, Many Are Called, pry, romantic, seriality, stare, subway, surreptitiously, suspended between moments, …the mystery in each individual…, unposed, and 1938-1941. Did you see one? Tell me.

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Eighth Series: Windmills, edition 10. This little series is in support of the US climate bill that is struggling in the Senate narrowly passed by the House. Placed 26-31, 2010 in New York. Each collage consists of a 2 x 3 ½ inch poly bag, a photograph of a windmill and a tiny windmill made out of metallic paper. On verso is a diagram of various windmills, round or windmill shaped sequins, a signifier word sticker with the edition number, and the web-site address. Signifier words for this series are: 44 Democrats defected, Al Gore, carbon dioxide, climate bill, climate-change, filibuster, green, House 219-212 vote, jobs, jobs, jobs, renewable energy.
Did you see one? Tell me.

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Seventh Series: Parasol, ed. 10. On Sunday afternoon I was wandering around Soho and Chinatown looking for art supplies and little toys. Broiling heat, no hat, no sunglasses. I saw the sensible ladies on Mott Street with their parasols and wished for one myself. Collages placed July 20-22, 2010. Each collage consists of a 2 x 3 ½ inch polybag, a photograph of my hand on mylar, a butterfly sequin (silver or green), over a cut sheet of Chinese joss paper. Inside is a yellow or blue paper parasol to shade your mai tai. The collage is attached with red circular sticker. On verso are three red star sequins and a signifier word sticker with the edition number and web-site address. Signifier words for this series are: brolly, gamp, higasa, ómbros, parasol, skiadeion, sunshade , umbrella, パラソル, 傘 . Did you see one? Tell me.

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Sixth Series: New Yorkers, edition 100. This series is based on my semi-clandestine photographs of people in the street. All photographs are shot from the hip, unframed, unfocused, then cropped. Placed July 16–25, 2010 in New York. Each collage consists of a 2 x 3 ½ inch poly bag, my photograph of a New Yorker, blue beads, silver glitter, and a tiny map of Manhattan. The collage is attached with regular masking tape. On verso is a mirrored panel (so you can check your hair), walk stickers and a signifier word sticker with the edition number and web-site address. Signifier words for this series include: aloof, anxious, arrogant, artistic, arty, blasé, bookish, brash, chic, cocky, cold, conceited, condescending, cool, creative, crowd, cultured, distant, edgy, egotistical, élan, elegant, erudite, fashionable, fixated, flair, gruff, haughty, impatient, in fashion, indifferent, intellectual, Jewish, liberal, loud, mannered, modish, narcissistic, neurotic, obsessed, obsessed, opinionated, overconfident, panache, phobic, pompous, private, proud, public, pushy, rude, self-confident, self-important, self-satisfied, smarter, smug, snooty, stuck-up, style, stylish, supercilious, superior, surly, tense, unfriendly, uptight, well read, and well-dressed. Did you see one? Tell me.