"For My Next Trick I'll Need a Volunteer"

Portion of matchbook, torn page from local religious bulletin, cocktail napkin, film negative, yarn, bobby pins and glue on cardboard, 15.5 x 10 inches, November - December, Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

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"Special Introductory Issue of the Fatima Crusader with George Jones and Corporal Works Enhancement (Only She Can Help You)"

Portion of matchbook, torn portion of George Jones playing cards box, torn piece of propaganda from my mother:  glued to torn Fatima Crusader cover / propaganda from my mother, 8.5 x 5.75 inches, December 21st, 2017, Brooks 1890, Long Island City, Queens.

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"Crushed Shrine to Fat Black Cross, Minus Cross"

Matchbox, glue and a hint of residue from the titular cross, 2.75 x 2 inches, December 24th, Pencil Factory, Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

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(Original Untitled IBL Art)

Pen and lipstick on torn book page, 3 x 3.25 inches (dimensions adjustable as this tore into three pieces upon completion - one square, three squares, five squares), December 3rd, 2017, Linda's Tavern, Capitol Hill, Seattle.

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"Our Terrifying Future"

Portion of matchbook, torn page from Fatima Crusader / propaganda from my mother, lipstick, pencil, crayon, glue and charred wood on torn cardboard, 8.5 x 7 inches, November 20th, Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

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"Emergency Issue"

Portion of matchbook, torn page from Fatima Crusader / propaganda from my mother, and torn note from my mother glued to propaganda from my mother / torn Fatima Crusader cover, 8 1/8 x 5.75 inches, November 20th, Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

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"The Life of Christ"

Torn piece of visitor's guide from Cathedral of St. John the Divine, glued to torn book page with prior notation by unknown hand, 5.5 x 4  inches, November 18th, Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

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"Vendor, Grand Central Station"

An original IBL photograph taken November 14th, 2017, Manhattan.

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"The Bad Thief"

An original IBL photograph taken July 30th, 2017, Bowery Subway Station, Manhattan.

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"The Good Thief"

An original IBL photograph taken July 30th, 2017, Bowery Subway Station, Manhattan.

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"Failed Ad Campaign - RCA Stereo Cassettes"

Pen, torn cassette tape cover, and cellophane tape on torn hospital brochure, 4.5 x 3.75 inches, June 3rd, 2017, Elk's Lodge, Fremont, Seattle.

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"Chapter 26 of 'Lolita' Taped to a Dosa Royale (Brooklyn) Postcard and Sent Via U.S. Mail to Renee Sedliar"

Torn page from Lolita, pen, stamp and cellophane tape on postcard, 4.25 x 6 inches, August 6th, 2017, Old Town, Manhattan.

Address to be added.  100 Pieces of Mail for 2017, #84 of 100.

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"Mr. Blue Sky"

Pen, lipstick, pencil, pencil shavings, glue and cellophane tape on cocktail napkin, 4.5 x 4.5 inches, September 23rd, 2017, Black Rabbit, Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

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"2nd Draft of 'Volare' - Inspired Cocktail Napkin for Jamie Bartalamay"

Pen and lipstick on cocktail napkin, 4.25 x 4.5 inches, July 29th, 2017, Precious Metal, Bushwick, Brooklyn.

Because sometimes it's apparent that a draft cannot be improved upon.

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"Corpus Christi Bay"

Pen, lipstick, pencil, pencil shavings and glue on cocktail napkin, 4.75 x 4.75 inches, September 23rd, 2017, Black Rabbit, Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

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"Universal Corner"

Pen and lipstick on cocktail napkin, 4.75 x 4.75 inches, September 21st, 2017, Black Rabbit, Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

By special request and intended for Garth Wolkoff.

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"Golgotha"

An original IBL photograph taken August 17th, 2017, in the apartment of Michael Fox, Painter, Long Island City, New York.  Michael has hung material to protect the walls when he is working on a canvas - I spied this among the brambles, drips and spatters.

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"I Caught You Knocking At My Cellar Door"

Pen, lipstick, pencil, pencil shavings, glue and cellophane tape on cocktail napkin, 4.75 x 4.75 inches, September 21st, 2017, Black Rabbit, Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

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"Lipstick Vogue"

Pen, pencil, cellophane tape and lipstick on cocktail napkin, 4.75 x 4.75 inches, grid completed September 8th, 2017, El Loro Mexican Restaurant, Minneapolis; grid filled in September 21st, 2017, Black Rabbit, Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

By special request and intended for Garth Wolkoff.

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"Draft for Something Potentially Larger"

Pen and lipstick on cocktail napkin, 4.75 x 4.75 inches, September 21st, 2017, Black Rabbit, Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

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"Jesus Loves Bill Hicks and Ray Wylie Hubbard"

Pen, pencil and lipstick on cocktail napkin, 4.75 x 4.75 inches, September 21st, 2017, Black Rabbit, Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

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"Centurion Kneeling at the Foot of the Cross"

An original IBL photograph taken August 17th, 2017, in the apartment of Michael Fox, Painter, Long Island City, New York.  Michael has hung material to protect the walls when he is working on a canvas - I spied this among the brambles, drips and spatters.

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" II (Two): Gray Car with Disagreeable Word"

An original IBL photograph taken June, 2017, University Way Northeast, Ravenna, Seattle.  Second of a two part set.

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" I (One): Silver Car with Disagreeable Object"

An original IBL photograph taken June, 2017, University Way Northeast, Ravenna, Seattle.  First of a two part set.

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"In Which Our Messiah..."

Set of four (4) cocktail napkins, each 4 3/8 x 4 3/8 inches - pen, felt pen, pencil, lipstick and cellophane tape, July 15th, 2017, Molly's Shebeen, Manhattan.

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"Oh Sweet Nothing"

Pen, pencil and lipstick on cocktail napkin, 4.75 x 4.75 inches, September 8th, 2017, El Loro Mexican Restaurant, Minneapolis.

By special request and intended for Garth Wolkoff.

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"I've Got A Brillo Box and I Say It's Art"

Glue and torn piece of Philadelphia Museum of Art gallery guide on coaster, 4 x 4 inches, September 8th, 2017, El Loro Mexican Restaurant, Minneapolis.

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"The Centre Cannot Hold"

Pen, pencil, lipstick, glue and pencil shavings on cardboard, 5.5 x 8.5 inches, September 8th, 2017, Minneap0lis.  Intended for Catherine Paul.

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"Who Are You To Tell Others For Whom I Died?"

Okay so then there's this.  First published in these pages on 10/9/12, it was untitled.  But something about it always bothered me - perhaps that it seemed intentionally antagonistic, which I did not mean it to be.  I meant it to be a commentary on The Christ's sacrifice for all of humanity, not just for those annoying "Christians Aren't Perfect Just Forgiven" folks.  And so it sat around, and I looked at it a bunch of times (over five years).  And so but then last week in Kalispell, Montana, I added only the portion of matchbook and it made all the difference to me in conjunction with the eye black I have been using on so many other pieces of late (see A Play in Five Acts on 8/23/17; You Thought God Was An Architect, Now You Know on 1/28/17, and there are others).

So - Pencil, felt pen, crayon, glue and torn matchbook on coaster, 3.5 x 3.5 inches, 9/30/12 (Wedgwood Broiler, Wedgwood, Seattle), and completed on 8/31/17, ScottiBelli's Ristorante, Kalispell, MT.

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"Subsequent Untitled Piece"

Anna Livia pre-torn cardboard, religious materiel from my mother, torn book page, lipstick and glue, 11 x 6.75 inches, August 9th, 2017, Molly's Shebeen, Manhattan.

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"Lettering Template for Subsequent Untitled Piece"

Lipstick, pen and cellophane tape on torn paper bag, 5 x 5.5 inches, August 9th, 2017, Molly's Shebeen, Manhattan.

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(Original Untitled IBL Art)

Two cocktail napkins - 1) pen, pencil and crayon 2) glue and pencil shavings; each 4.25 x 4.5 inches, Precious Metal, Bushwick, Brooklyn, July 29th, 2017.

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"Adore (with Accent)"

An original IBL photograph taken Tuesday, August 15th, @sLICe, Long Island City, New York.

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"Iron Nails Ran Inn"

An original IBL photograph taken Friday, August 18th, Bed Stuy, Brooklyn.

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"A Play in Five Acts"

Return with us now to a post from June 28th, 2014, and BE ASTOUNDED with the text that accompanied a very basic cross titled "Supporting Capital Punishment for 2000 Years Plus" - - -

Original IBL art - ink on torn coaster, 3.25 x 3 inches (cross from 2012 and, well, it had just been hanging around for awhile; torn and titled in Hattie's Hat, Ballard) 6/21/14.

To that we will add this - on August 9th, 2017, at Molly's Shebeen, Manhattan, a piece of matchbook was added as well as the table of contents (partial) from a (cerca) 1925 title page from Twelfth Night that my Aunt Margaret owned as a child all those years ago, and now A Play in Five Acts has been realized.

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"Hit Me With A Flower"

Torn advertisement plus torn cassette tape cover glued to coaster, both glued to torn book page, 6.75 x 4 inches, August 11th, 2017, Happy Rooster, Philadelphia.  Right of first refusal to Douglas Caine.

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(Original Untitled IBL Art)

Pen on torn cocktail napkin glued to torn bag, 1.5 x 6.5 inches, August 9th, 2017, Molly's Shebeen, Manhattan.

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"Frame"

An original IBL photograph taken Sunday, August 6th, 2017, Chambers Street Subway Station, Manhattan.

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(Untitled)

An original IBL photograph taken Tuesday, August 1st, Bushwick, Brooklyn.

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"In the Pub at Keens Steakhouse"

An original IBL photograph taken Thursday, August 3rd, 2017, in the Pub at Keens Steakhouse, Manhattan.

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"Marriage Threat with Passing Subway Train"

An original IBL photograph taken Sunday, July 23rd, 2017, in a subway station that I can't identify, Manhattan.

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"Well I Woke Up Sunday Morning"

Torn advertisement and staples on prayer card, 4.5 x 2.75 inches, July 19th, 2017, Skytown, Bushwick, Brooklyn.

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"Prayer Card Mounted on Torn and Folded Book Page" or "All the Things That You Do to Your Face"

Prayer card, torn cassette tape insert, and cellophane tape on torn book page, 5.5 x 4.25 inches, July 19th, 2017, Skytown, Bushwick, Brooklyn.

Dedicated with love to Douglas Caine.

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"A Quinn Martin Production"

Pen on torn paper,  torn religious materiel from my mother, and cellophane tape on Anna Livia pre-torn cardboard, 5.25 x 3.5 inches, July 19th, 2017, Skytown, Bushwick, Brooklyn.

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"the car and the dog and the sun and the shade and the wet and the weak and the strong and the stone"

Pen on torn page from Lolita paperback, 3 x 4 1/8 inches, August 6th, 2017, Old Town, Manhattan.

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(Original Untitled IBL Art)

Pen on torn page from Lolita paperback, 2 5/8 x 3.5 inches, July 25th, 2017, Ear Inn, Manhattan.

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"Password"

An adaptation / addition to images posted on May 8th, 2017 - an original IBL photograph taken Friday, February 17th, 2017, at Mother Aerie Eagles Lodge on Lake City Way in Seattle.  The chalk on chalkboard is Yours Truly's, too.  Didn't think to measure the chalkboard when I was there, but it's probably about 4 feet by 3 feet or something like that.  I asked Robin Wood for a song title and she responded with You Are My Sunshine.  This was the result.

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"Late, Unhelpful Advice"

An adaptation / addition to images posted on May 8th, 2017 - an original IBL photograph taken Friday, February 17th, 2017, at Mother Aerie Eagles Lodge on Lake City Way in Seattle.  The chalk on chalkboard is Yours Truly's, too.  Didn't think to measure the chalkboard when I was there, but it's probably about 4 feet by 3 feet or something like that.  I asked Danielle McArthur for a song title and she responded with Dock of the Bay.  This was the result.

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"Imprimatur"

An original IBL photograph of original IBL art (chalk on chalkboard, 15 seconds flat) taken Sunday, July 2nd, 2017, at the Quarter Lounge, First Hill, Seattle.

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"It's My World and Welcome To It"

Pen on torn matchbook cover, 1.5 x 1.25 inches, June 6th, 2017, Octopus Bar, Wallingford, Seattle.  On its way to Geoff Bankowski.

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