Relationship XXIX was completed and left on 8/29/2011 (my birthday) along the “Icon Walk” wall just outside The Icon Factory, a cool urban gallery & shop at the corner of Aston Place and Bedford Lane in the Temple Bar district of Dublin, Ireland. –
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here is the original record album cover I started from:
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Completed & posted in Atlanta, Georgia on Memorial Drive at Harden Street on 7/24/2011.
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Relationship XXVII – “Life is a Lethal Contest”
Hand cut & paste collage on “None but the Lethal Heart – A Mike Shayne Mystery” by Brett Halliday It was completed in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
This was mailed (along with #XXV) to an online acquaintance, Robert Warner in New York in June of 2011.
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This piece was completed while in Atlanta, Georgia and then mailed to Gregory Travis in Brookville, New York on 7/8/2011
RECYCLED TRASH AS ART:
I use old, cheesy record covers and trashy paperback book covers as a starting point for my hand-cut and paste collages. I then use only objects found on the ground, in the trash, junk mail or recycling bin. Sometimes incorporating my own Polaroid photographs. Then I leave them out in public as street art for everyone to enjoy (or destroy.) I have also started mailing small pieces out to some people.
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RAY JOHNSON FAN CLUB
This was the first collage where I used the “Ray Johnson Fan Club “L.A.R.” stamp.
Relationship XXV – ” Now that you’re all Patriotic and Stuff”
completed and posted on the street on July 4, 2011
Left along Euclid Avenue near Moreland Ave.NE in Little Five Points.
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Relationship XXIV – “Death Has Three Moms”
This was my first collage on a book cover though I’d been planning to do it for a while.
“Death has three lives: A Mike Shayne Mystery” by Brett Haliday.
It was completed in Atlanta, Georgia, USA on 6/19/2011 while spending the night in the hospital accompanying my mother who was recovering from open-heart surgery.
This was mailed (along with #XXVII) to an online acquaintance, Robert Warner in New York in June of 2011.
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Relationship XXIII “Every Love is the Woman from Ponyclub” was completed and posted in Amsterdam, Holland on 5/23/2011 on a wall at the intersection of Singel Centrum and Geelvincksteeg Centrum.
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THIS PIECE IS CURRENTLY AVAILABLE.
Large collage in four panels. approx. 3×4 feet. Made entirely with found objects on a “Guess” advertisement board.
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This was my second collage made specifically for an art exhibition and not as street art. It was shown for “Parcours – 40”, le parcours d’artistes à Mons during the last two weekends in May of 2011.
THIS PIECE IS CURRENTLY AVAILABLE.
Large collage on a painting found in garbage – made entirely of found objects.
Approximately 5’x5′ (feet)
This was my first large collage, almost as tall as me, and also my first piece made specifically for an art exhibition and not as street art. It was shown for “Parcours – 40”, le parcours d’artistes à Mons during the last two weekends in May of 2011. I was working with the group Recycling Collective at the former Royal College of Fine Art in Mons, Belgium. The school had been abandoned for many years but I still found some of the students’ art lying around in the vacant rooms. This large painting of a face was crumpled up in a trash heap so I used it as my canvas to collage on.
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Collage with Found Objects
Relationship XIX – “Big Treat from the Paradise Machine”
This collage was left in Paris on 2/22/11 along Rue Aubry le Boucher near the Centré Pompidou.
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FANCLUB 13 