some things just kick ass

coat of arms (amateur hour at the lexico-disco)

if language has roots, a dictionary is a tree in winter:

starkly stands out, rampant on a field of white,
meaningful in that it has no leaves only because it had them prior.

[the exposed self is not a skeleton]

Photos de France (quatre)

les beaux arts:

Photos de France (trois)

L'art Monochrom

Kazimir Malevich
Black Square, 1915


AB, Monoblue, 2007
(sky near la défense at sundown -- pour Yves Klein)


AB, Monogrey, 2007
(apartment ceiling, rue Duroc -- pour moi)


...and to break the monotony, here's a tired image that can be put on the cover of Matthew Fricano's debut album, le parisite (easy listening)

AB, 2007
(metro, thousands of feet below ground -- pour Matt)

Photos de France (deux)

Mason and I went to Paris, France to visit Matt and Aisha


There, there is only art--you look at it, or you make it





as Matt demonstrates.

there's only one tit in title

((undermine the obvious))

junk lady/yard sale/dumpster/thrift store/other people's property
(breton and giacometti)

metaphor/models of the universe: the Exemplary Model of an Unending Universe
(internet and other technologies, the novel, music, presence/presents, a void)

show don't tell
(modest exhibitionism)

skull study - lithograph - ab - 07

Kenneth Kerslake Memorial Printmaking Award, Student Art Juried Exhibition 2008, University of Florida

Second Thoughts About Pork

I'm no jew, so I wouldn't eschew a-chewing a fat slab of bacon because of RELIGIOUS OBLIGATION ($$$) or because I really believe that swine are exceptionally dirty animals, but it becomes apparent to me the amount of dead human beings that are regularly disposed of (cleanly and completely) at pig farms across the nation.

Dead hookers and molested kid corpses.
Perhaps it doesn't affect the meat we eat, but it's still a bit unsettling...

unless you view it somehow as revenge,
where you'd be more mad at the pigs
for eating dead humans than you would
be at the unscrupulous caterers.

Photos de France (un)

god damn good, giacometti, woman with her throat cut, pompadour

giacometti, disagreeable object and matt fricano, pompadour

mason loves balls

louvre, true

aisha's head, defense threat

Found Object

...my first

wood, 2005

(signed M. Fricano, my R. Mutt)

getting all the posts out of the way while the internet's around

I met this little guy a few months into 2007 --
here's a label, perchance that it may look like art:

adam brown
Implement for Owl Safety, 2007
camphor
12"x12"x18"

currently in the collection of
Mr. and Mrs. Collin and Lindsey Palmer-Mcleod

the ones I end up taking/these that stand out

stump


congregation


signifier


untitled (the one I love most)

A Quite Convincing Alfred Stieglitz...

...but I'm no Sugimoto

Figurative Bronze Sculpture In Norway

Gustav Vigeland -- Birhmann Yaenosh, Conqueror of Babies
In memory, the man who freed the great forested north from the scourge of diminuative humans.

Brute force.

To this day, there are no babies on the vast ice-primed scandanavian peninsula.

choker

all my hearts are broken.
all I have missspoken,
miscarried secrets and meek admissions
left my self less than alone.
It is a cold forge that tempers my eyes,
avails me means to suffocate this sigh.

In my silence
I must have been
telling myself things
I don't believe.

'the end is nigh'

the walls are leaning in.

it's almost go-time.
crunchaway

picture your face!

bearput

I attached the shoulder/body with the arm/claws to the face/head.
There are some difficulties with balance and moving parts.
It is pretty cumbersome and hard to work within.

but it'll work.

I think I'll have to repaint the face, it's taken quite a beating

update reuptake

bear is looking good. need to go get fabrics.

need to start on fingers and fish.

pics will be posted.