comparing 1986 censors’ brain size to mine
July 6, 2013
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Parma censors by Melissa Jay Craig, 1986
This was ex-Clevelander and current Chicago pulp sculptress Melissa Jay Craig’s postcard comment on my being censored by Tri-C West on Parents’ Day 1986.
She’s comparing the censors’ brain size to mine.
A Plain Dealer article on it mentioned:
A rapid-fire sequence of events culminated in what one observer described as “the best happening I’ve seen in years” at the opening that night. Many people who were present didn’t know what was going on in the confusion; reports vastly differed.
According to both Smith and gallery co-director David Vargo , Smith agreed to the removal of the disputed works but insisted on a notification of censorship in their place. When these were removed by a school official, Smith said he wrote “censored” in the blanks on the wall with a ball point pen.
Here’s the rest of the article . . . agentofchaos.com/review1986.html.
A plethora of pictures, a wanting of words
July 4, 2013
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Rock & Flow
Between stone and soft place
beneath green rise
hard dark above old gray below
in life scar flow
one rock garden
– Smith, 7.4.2013
A plethora of pictures, a wanting of words
foto Smith
RABBIT SEEKING CEREMONY ON TRAIL
July 4, 2013
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Padding lightly
or thumping footfalls
on the trail
percussion by foot
percussion by run
And the percussion
of my heartbeat
steadier even than my foot
Magestic, the outdoors
the woods
the wilded
Tapestry more ordered
with its clusters
dapples and splays
than anything we do,
we humans
Even invasive phragmites
wave with some kind of grace
Thumping on the trail
I think I am Ohio grown
Virginia sown
What was Virginia called
before it was
called Virginia?
By the people who lived there
so long?
Thumping on the trail
I wonder
is that
how indigenous people ran here?
Did they run
very many established trails
or did they weave
between the leaves more often
did they bend
blades of grass
underfoot
outside of baskets
fingered
All I can do is
read
and feel it out
read
and put my foot out
sound it out
feel it out
foot it out
I noticed the other day
how my left foot is surer
than my right
And my right hand surer
than my left
What kinds of variables
govern that, I do not know
Maybe diagonals bolster strength
for some kind of basket
Self carried through itself
felt and footed around, sounded out
thumping down the trail
~ Lady
Rodman Robot
July 2, 2013
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Rodman Robot terrorizes neighborhood – foto Smith
She He Symphony
She:
How’s your joystick, how’s your rod?
me:
If I painted it red, it’d be a red rod.
If I heated it up, it’d be a hot rod.
If I made it musical, it’d be rod & roll.
If movie, we’d be
Clitoris Day & Rod Hugbuns.
— Smith & Lady, 7.2.2013
pp dd – foto Smith
metal love yum bliss
July 1, 2013
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metal love yum bliss – fotos Smith
Feel Shard
Metal love yum bliss
steel hard surface
yet tender as is
providing purpose
and reason to rise
with inner porpoise
defeating the lies
withholding service
— Smith, 7.1.2013