PrettyFakes

See How We Are.
The Los Angeles band X has a song called “4th of July,” about a boy and a girl breaking up. It’s the saddest and greatest thing I’ve ever heard. There is nothing truer than when Johny Doe sings “She gives me her cheek, oh, when I want her lips.” The locked apartment door is the song. The needle and thread try to pull it all back together, just like John does in the song, when he tells Her to “come outside/It’s the 4th of July.” I stamped all this out in ink and then hated it so much I tried to erase it under the drum of a cold shower. It just smeared like a memory.
Polaroid Sun600 LMS (with flash); framed, $47.

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See How We Are is on display starting this Friday, December 14, at the Light + Glass Gallery in Jackson, Mississippi. The show’s called “Stereo,” and also features new fused and etched glass work by Wendy Eddleman and Rob Cooper, including a new series of wood-and-glass lanterns they’ve created.

As of last night, Jerri and Roy from L+G have hung all the pieces. I have to admit that I am tremendously excited (See How We Are is also featured as an illustration in this week’s Jackson Free Press and the Clarion-Ledger). My stuff looks okay, but Rob and Wendy have truly outdone themselves and I think the Polaroids look fantastic framed. I’m just as excited about the catalog that details my pieces from the show, which was designed by the fabulous Jaxxie Glam.

I spent most of last night laying out the second Sandusky Review. That’s normally the hardest part, compounded this time around with the fact that the artifact is a flip-book of sorts, so the pages rotate half-way through. No small amount of effort went into the fact that I wanted this issue, which is centered at the Jitney 14 on Fortification in Jackson, to have 14 pages. Unfortunately that also means I’ve got to somehow find time to do two more illustrations in the next twelve hours.

Hope to see y’all Friday.

Update: The Clarion-Ledger cracks me up: “Light and Glass Studio, Stereo, works by Rob Cooper and Wendy Eddleman and Polaroids by Gorjus (a pseudonym).” OMG THEY FIGURED IT OUT. THAT IS NOT MY REAL NAME.

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