May 2008
stuff
 advert - foto by smith it was freeing in 2006 to sell the studio and give away all our possessions except for what we could carry in our backpacks. (not totally true - we still have some of our art in self storage.) it was a gift being near possessionless. stuff weighs you down, stufflessness allows you to soar. now, we’re getting more stuff. had a mattress delivered today. bought a used refrigerator the other day. tables, shelves, a futon for guests, dishes, clothes. life is becoming more complex, cluttered - and more comfortable. The Man keeps knocking down my front door  political graffiti - foto by smith |
the inventor of recycled neon art
 found neon sculpture by jeff chiplis - foto by lady k humans aren’t my favorite people, but Chiplis is okay. i’ve no proof he’s actually human, but if he is, he’s one of the good ones. Chiplis is the proprietor of the Fairy Tale Love Shack Out Back, a very small 2 room house where Lady and i lived for 6 weeks before leaving the country the 1st time, and for 10 weeks before we left the country the 2nd time. the shower was in the kitchen between the fridge and stove. our friend had us read at his Razzle Dazzle art closing right after we got back to cleveland after 14 months overseas.  found neon sculpture by jeff chiplis - foto by smith The New York Times calls Jeff Chiplis the inventor of recycled neon art - (click here), and he was reviewed in Art in America - (click here). here’s 3 shots of his work from 2006 and 2007. there’s another 27 fotos of his recent work on my art site at (click here)  found neon sculpture by jeff chiplis - foto by chiplis |
long time smith
 last night - foto by smith lady’s speaking rapid spanish to everyone. i stand mute, in ignorance. part of it is she’s a language freak and knows enough french to apply its similarities to spanish. plus she studies, and i don’t. lady is still becoming lady. i’ve been smith a long time.  dinner lady - foto by smith |
woman from the elf wood
 graffiti - foto by smith “Theater is life. Film is art. Television is furniture.” - unknown i tell Lady she’s weird. “I’m not weird,” she insists. “you’re so weird you’re from way inside Weird Wold in the Elf Wood. you’re weird. weird. weird.” she smiles.  mask in hat - foto by smith |
FOR MY LOVE AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD
My Favorite Monster by Mother Dwarf Smith FOR MY LOVE AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD Imagine a tarot card picturing an atomic explosion I’m aplomb in wonder under sunk sun on a rooftop in Africa In the mosque, strangers on stairwells, steps in moiré dimensionality At the top of the end of the world, Lady 
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el mundo
 36 x 20 inch table top - El Mundo (the world) - foto & collage by smith i figured out how to save the world from greed and global warming - we can use the Heisenbergian Maneuver. in the Heisenberg Universe, all things are true all at the same time. like the cat in the box with a bottle of poison and a decaying atom - the cat is alive and it’s dead and it’s all the places in-between until we ask the universe “is the cat dead or is the cat alive?” and reality collapses the cat into a yes or a no just to answer our question. so our curiosity can kill the cat. we see what we look for, we get what we ask, we receive the answer we seek. so all we have to do is change the way the world mind thinks. have everyone think things like no more greed, no more need, share, help, enable, consider, listen, care, feel, think, hope, help. global tribe in global village. in essence - don’t worry, be happy, and reality will follow. the only flaw in the ointment here is we gotta get everyone on earth all on the same page all at the same times for this to work, and that includes all the bad guys. i don’t know about you, but i don’t think the bad guys are really interested in helping. speaking of the world, i finished collaging my 36 x 20 inch table top - call it El Mundo (the World). and since most the world doesn’t use inches, it’s 51 x 92 centimeters as well. sounds like a much larger piece outside the u.s.of.a.  36 x 20 inch table top - El Mundo (the world) - foto & collage by smith  51 x 92 centimeter table top - El Mundo (the world) - foto & collage by smith  36 x 20 inch table top - El Mundo (the world) - foto & collage by smith  51 x 92 centimeter table top - El Mundo (the world) - foto & collage by smith |
priming the flesh pump
 carved wood mermaid in food store - foto by smith in an unpleasantly large very american box food store here i saw a pudgy 8 year old boy stop in front of a carved wooden mermaid with humongous breasts and ass wearing a thong. her ass was human, her lower legs and feet fish - made me wonder exactly how she got the thong on the boy slowly ran his fingers over her breasts and ass, a dreamy look on his face. he ended using both hands to rub both her nipples. maybe puberty’s coming earlier these days, or maybe he’s just sexually precocious, but it was one of those odd, slightly uncomfortable forbidden moments. what’s truly bizarre is the mermaid ain’t for sale - she and a carved wooden ape are eye candy to attract you to a food tasting table. i blame it all on TV priming the flesh pump.  health pamphlet illustration - foto by smith |
HILLARY CLINTON IS MOTHER AMERICA
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HILLARY CLINTON IS MOTHER AMERICA They used to say, “You’re getting two presidents for the price of one.” They used to say, “I didn’t know who was going to run first, Hill, or Bill.” What they meant is that Hillary is a real game player. I ponder Hillary’s humiliated heart. It hurt so bad. She had a pretty face way back when, except when it was manipulated in the tabloids. She had large dark eyebrows and soccer mom streaked hair. Rush Limbaugh tried to get her and her little girl, too. I liked her. Hillary Clinton became a new woman. I don’t know who this woman is and I don’t understand the bait coming from her mouth. Perhaps the process of sticking with Power, with Bill, made her face into a mask, a metaphor. Senate cemented the mask, and her hair turned into a helmet. Except in good lighting, or after Botox treatments, or after she has a good week of healthy lifestyle exercise, her face is fraught, lead, sodden. It is pitted and lined and pancaked with error. Her voice grates with hateful false pragmatism for the benefit of the lowest unnuanced denominator. She wears too much blue and too many Future suits. She looks like a darling fascist Mother America, the bad villain in a poorly written movie that just won’t end. Her smile luminesces little pearls in the photo above the story reporting an income of a hundred mill. O, Momma, what happened to your face? In Fantasy Pipe Dream World, I imagine Hillary Clinton playing yet a different part. I imagine her pulling herself out of the global corporate ambition bootstraps into a brand new She being. This Hillary Clinton would say, “Shucks, I was just kidding when I politicked with racist inuendo. I just had to play a part, you see, for the corporate sponsorship. But now I got their money, I’m gonna forget them, and I’m gonna be true to you.” How did everything go bad? It’s because the Game is a centrifuge. Only Players of the Game have access to power. Power gives Money money, Money gives Power power, and Power takes money from you and me. And Power gives power to Power, taking power from you and me. Ego is a failing star. Lady |
united mutants of smith
 a smith - foto by smith Lady says “I love you too.” i whine, only two? which two of me do you love? “How many of you you got in there?” so i tell her some of the many me’s that make up the United Mutants of Smith:
fool
clown curmudgeon eternal child outlaw romantic cynicist coward optimist klutz magician seer artist poet trickster adventurer rascal scoundrel Sisyphus chameleon story teller believer doubter seeker intellectual flake hermit surrealist absurdist and a strange “other” or two . . . those are just the smiths that come immediately to mind. so, which 2 do you love? “Adventurer and clown,” she immediately answers. as for Lady, she’s every single 1940’s female star rolled into an ever changing inexplicable one.  an other smith - foto by smith |
Inside Places - fotoblog
Wasabi nuts gratefully received & imbibed. Thank you Susannah
Dean for sending a wonderful bounty of spices & foods.
Table top playmates
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