Robot Girl, 13″ x 18″, 2011 – assemblage & foto by Smith
Got home from the poetry reading last night, glanced at the two pieces of scrap metal I’d found on the road the day before, decided they went together and 30 minutes later had this piece titled Robot Girl . . . name appropriated from a Was (Not Was) song.
The background will rust a bit more over the next 6 months — that’s one of the reasons I like using rust and copper corrosion because I never know what’s going to happen to the piece thanks to the interaction of iron and copper oxidation . . . these are essentially collaborations with time, chemistry and chance.
We’re both making new pieces because we have a major 2-month art show coming up February/March 2012 where we’re filling both rooms of the Mastroianni Arts Gallery down the road with pieces from my dead mother, dead brother, very live wife, and assumingly live me.
Two Dead Smiths, Two Live Smiths
Featuring
Mother Dwarf Smith, 1926 – 2005
Cat Smith, 1957 – 1987
Lady K. Smith, 1972 – ?
Steven B. Smith, 1946 – ?
February 10 – March 31, 2012
Mastroianni Arts
mastroianniarts.com/
Smith & Lady poetry reading one month
Smith & Lady memoir reading the next month
Memoir will supposedly be available for sale as well.
a true tale of
armed robbery, stolen cars, outsider art, mutant poetry,
underground publishing, robbing the cradle, and leaving the country
by Smith & Lady
PS – I’m the featured reader at The Poet’s Haven booth tomorrow at the Ingenuity Festival on the second level of the Detroit Superior Bridge from 1-2 PM . . . I’ll read 20 minutes or so and then try to sell and sign copies of the just published Crisis Chronicles Press chapbook titled Unruly of 22 of my new poems from 2010-11 plus one each from 2005, 1990 and 1968.
The Poet’s Haven poetshaven.com/
Robot Girl, 13″ x 18″, 2011 – assemblage & foto by Smith
Boogie on Reggae Steven! I’m excited to hear and see all of the above.
Nice: robot girl and all the rest!
(My turn to ride on your coattails?)