[spectre] ASH IS

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sound. For example, Foley designers use the sound of celery 
breaking to re-create the sound of bones breaking.
ASH IS

These are my raw production stills, made from late-1970's TV character-generator studio 
equipment, for a series of unique video-detective-poems/stories that combined 
interdependent social/narrative smoking conventions/structure with a live-shot of wispy, 
smoldering cigarettes/cigars/reefers that coincide with the length of the 
stanza/story-chapter displayed on-screen. The angular/vicious, clumsy, rastorized, 
monospaced character-font is very appropriate, amplifying the facets in the glass 
ash-tray -- perfectly generic... the paused video-tape generates a distorted pattern. 
Not in consequently, video rasters look like lines of ash. The smoking culture/language 
is all but extinct in populist Western society. The orchestrated pauses/punctuation in 
dialogue/intercourse and dramatic emphasis suggest social/narrative interaction and yet 
singular identity is necessarily cancelled/snuffed-out.

A SYSTEM DESIGNED FOR FAILURE

The act of smoking is often a substitute for conversation or effectively directs it. The 
smoking author, smoking characters and smoking reader are chemically linked, prompted by 
textual reference. The detached narrator/detective, always waiting/watching... lights 
another. Lungs, nostrils and lips.

Concurrently I was also interested in the fixed physicality of gesture suggested by the 
positions of the cigarettes in their packages as displayed/proffered in print 
advertisements. This resulted in a number of enamel outline paintings that likely no 
longer exist. I remember white outlines on vast deep shiny royal blue backgrounds. 
Despite frequent application, there was never any institutional support for these works. 
Corruption run rampant. The detective genre has been an important aspect in my work: by 
investigating clues/references history is rewritten, causing even non-existing 
events/crimes/identities to actually occur/materialize.

I can envision a small set of deluxe enlarged prints of just the frozen-video ashtray to 
accompany this publication. Very remote chance.


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CRYSTAL VEHICLES (IMMACULATE COLLISIONS)

This is a series of photos made from overlaid xeroxed-acetate copies from an auto-trader 
magazine -- and compressed/positioned in the big billboard-sized 
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attempted to align the windshields when making the 5x7 prints in the late 70's.

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ETCH

Solarized designs for etched-glass panels -- derived from Crystal Palace / Millennium 
imagery. These could be small, card-sized works and huge glass wall panels: any scale.

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