Nothing depressing…was just singing along with Peggy Lee: Oh, no. Not me. I’m in no hurry for that final disappointment. / For I know just as well as I’m standing here talking to you, / when that final moment comes and I’m breathing my last breath, I’ll be saying to myself, Is that all there is, is that all there is / If that’s all there is my friends, then let’s keep dancing / Let’s break out the booze and have a ball / If that’s all there is
California firestorms 2008 In sympathy & empathy with my Australian friends in 2009.
White Plastic chairs move indoors….or the indoors is getting aired out.
then eat the words.
The United States Congress and The Powers That Be / deregulated the banking industry. Was it the greed of corporations / or of the public who joined in the happy hop of cheap credit, / worthless collateral, the waltz of spending and golden parachutes… / no matter. Now the same United States Congress and The Powers / That Be are spinning backwards, but this time it will be in jackboots / and they will charge a dollar a dance. / Brother can you spare a …. dollar?
...or : live and let die in the Junkyard.
Cut & paste collage. / No digital effects.
Perception is everything.
Or…
An agitation / A time of year / An unsettled feeling / Subconscious memories waiting to make an appearance ~
...fired, sacked, laid off; / In English : unnecessary, unneeded, unwanted. / It means no job no more / No money coming in In bureaucratese : downsized, restructured, outsourced. / It means suck it up and suck it in / We got ours and tough cookies In real life : no pension, warranty expired, no guarantee / That your 20 years of service means anything : / The pink slip bleeds into the economy running red ink. ~ featured 21 December 2008 “Image Writing”
Collaboration / photomontage - pbworks transit ticket mailed from Paris plus PhDilettante self portrait as collage. *
Aura of the Beat generation = be bop. No effects.
The Junkyard Series… visits to a small corner which houses the discards, the dead or the defeated on the way to the Final Resting Place.
Selket : 1993 – 2009 The wicker is c.1940 and had been recently reupholstered. / The Kitten was 6 months old. *
or / Modern Mandarin
~Horoscope You have things to do before you can clear your mind and open up your heart to someone else; you can’t get involved unless you’re available in every sense of the word. *
Collage : Influenced by Asian screens. In Asian art, cranes are usually shown in pairs; the loss of a mate is often represented by one crane. / For a friend during a sad time.
Dirty secrets behind the uban/urbane veneer. Study of light tubes in holding area on the way to recycling. / / ~Junkyard Series
Photo Collage Rare glimpse of Cole in one place at the same time.
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