WAR IS A FOUR LETTER WORD
Oil and water don’t mix. Yet when forced, a new surface appears creating unique structures and dependencies with different behaviors and haptic experiences. Drawing with ink on this new surface resembles for me the current state we live in. Known, daily tools enter an unknown with unforeseen outcomes. What I took for granted no longer exists. A new world shows up.
Two texts are included in the first book. Both written during the lock down month here in NY. The poem emerged when at on point night after night the sirens of ambulances never stopped. The second text is a conversation with the virus.
Also included in German is a quote from “Hause der Lüge” by Einstürzende Neubauten. A word game on the word bullet and attic which is the same in German “Geschoss”. The quote loosely translates to: “Into the skull, through the skull, out of the skull” and “God has shot himself, an attic is being extended”.
The second book is a picture book of polaroids. I took pictures while confined to my quarters, while taking careful, often reluctant walks through my neighborhood, while running necessary errands on my bike. Documented by thoughts and emotional states I found myself in during the Spring of 2020.
War is a four letter word because it's never just one.
Institutional collectors: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, University of Delaware, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Library of Congress
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War is a four letter word
Publication Date: 2020
Edition size: out of print
Medium: oil and acryl paint, acryl marker, ink, typewriter and drawing on cardboard, miso paper and recycled newsprint
Dimensions: W 7 x H 12 x D 1 inches (W17.5 cm x H 30.5 cm x D 2.54 cm)
Pages: 68, kettle stitch binding
War is a four letter word - picture book
Publication Date: 2020
Edition size: out of print
Medium: oil and acryl paint, acryl marker, ink, photo and handwritten text on cardboard and miso paper
Dimensions: W 2.25 x H 3.5 x D 1.5 inches (W 5.7 cm x H 8.9 cm x D 3.8 cm)
Pages: 27 polaroids, accordion binding
