Collage, 1977-79

 

A collaborative collage, known as The Giant Collage, created by me and Roman Scott, 1977-79. I posted about this work previously.

 

The same work, filtered through Dream deeply. As some others have indicated, the program generates a lot of dogs. This is, however, still an engrossing interpretation of the fractal original.

 

  And one more Dream deeply rendering -- of Marc Myers, Clark Dissmeyer, and me, Nebraska, 8 March 2015. We look like psychonauts in a Stanislaw Lem novel, or figures in a Francis Bacon painting, or both.

The Book of Srang Pages Five and Six

The Living Head Speaks

The Book of Srang, pages three and four:

"Barry Manilo" (Barry Manilow) needs not my aid in description.

Bigfoot and Wildboy was a kids' show of the day.

My friend's grandmother used the phrase, "What's this jigger?"

We were taken with the word "defy" and its variants.

The Book of Srang Pages One and Two

Pages one and two of The Book of Srang. 

"Mason Riech" -- a misspelled rendition of child actor Mason Reese's name.

"Kintire" -- a reference to Paul McCartney and Wings' song Mull of Kintyre.  The friend who drew into being The Book of Srang and I had a fascination for this song. The place-name "Kintyre" is what intrigued us, just the sound of the word -- we knew nothing about the actual site. This reference dates The Book of Srang to late 1977 or sometime in 1978.

  "The Human Jukebox" -- a street performer my friend saw on a trip to San Francisco. My friend told me the musician sat in a large cardboard box. Drop in a coin and one would get a brief trumpet tune.

The Book of Srang Cover

This is the cover of a unique chapbook, The Book of Srang (a misspelling of "strange") drawn by a childhood friend of mine. As indicated by the instruction on the left, the book had an audio accompaniment
-- vocal effects imprinted on a cassette tape.  The tape long ago vanished, no doubt first unraveling.