" STIGATION "
5-1/2 x 8-1/2, collaged printed & typed paper & typed waxed paper with burnholes & an acetate panel affixed overtop, a postcard made & mailed to Karl Kempton, summer 1982, for a visual poetry mail art exhibition in i think it was San Luis Obispo. it appeared in print that fall on the cover of Kempton's Kaldron 15, horribly photographed & trimmed (see www.flickr.com/photos/48593922@N04/15767006819). this photograph is an 8oo dpi scan from a contact print made from a 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 b&w negative also contact printed directly from the original, both shot by Mark Laba. details not very visible here will emerge if viewed larger (www.flickr.com/photos/48593922@N04/16575130187/sizes/h/ is about ideal).
i forget now where all the source text came from but i recognize a coupla chunks from a dismembered copy of my own first book Moebius & A Bottle (Blewointmentpress, 1977), a piece of Peggy Lefler & i's Fiction Marks (Curvd H&z, 1982), Shant Basmajian's spare change (Old Nun Publications, mid-197os) & Don Garner's Yukon Violation (i think; Huron Path Press, 198o). the 2-directional text in the burnhole & on the waxed paper may be from Sound Poetry: A Catalogue (Steve McCaffery & bpNichol, editors, Underwhich Editions, 1978).
" STIGATION "
5-1/2 x 8-1/2, collaged printed & typed paper & typed waxed paper with burnholes & an acetate panel affixed overtop, a postcard made & mailed to Karl Kempton, summer 1982, for a visual poetry mail art exhibition in i think it was San Luis Obispo. it appeared in print that fall on the cover of Kempton's Kaldron 15, horribly photographed & trimmed (see www.flickr.com/photos/48593922@N04/15767006819). this photograph is an 8oo dpi scan from a contact print made from a 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 b&w negative also contact printed directly from the original, both shot by Mark Laba. details not very visible here will emerge if viewed larger (www.flickr.com/photos/48593922@N04/16575130187/sizes/h/ is about ideal).
i forget now where all the source text came from but i recognize a coupla chunks from a dismembered copy of my own first book Moebius & A Bottle (Blewointmentpress, 1977), a piece of Peggy Lefler & i's Fiction Marks (Curvd H&z, 1982), Shant Basmajian's spare change (Old Nun Publications, mid-197os) & Don Garner's Yukon Violation (i think; Huron Path Press, 198o). the 2-directional text in the burnhole & on the waxed paper may be from Sound Poetry: A Catalogue (Steve McCaffery & bpNichol, editors, Underwhich Editions, 1978).