"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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