Thursday, April 23, 2009

are prisons obsolete?


My grandmother used to shred matchbook covers while chain smoking Belairs - creating a fringe curtain to see the matches like missing teeth. Apparently I picked up her habit (not the Belairs).

carwash 2009


Some one's gotta dignify that saran wrapped pink styrofoam filling up the bodega aisles. Going through the carwash as a kid was the closest i ever got to feeling like Willy Wonka in the chocolate factory.

board meeting 2009


I went to buy a Freedom Chair at a huge empty board room. I couldn't afford the  $800 chair but I got a free cappuccino and the catalog.

zsa zsa's chipped tooth 2009


Zsa zsa Gabor and my sister running into the fence in the alley and chipping her tooth at the block party.

florsheim


shoes, shoes, shoes, shoes, shoes, shoes --self explanatory.

trap


This box was in the leftover bag from his mom's french teaching class when she retired. A box of dried up red markers--that was the least of it.

You are being lied to 2009

From a series of NY Times collages that have been sewn to their shadows.

fugitive thought 2009



I got carried away by David Foster Wallace and Noah's Ark.

fugitive thought 2009



Saturday, April 4, 2009

water the plants!
pop up bananza
snowball kitten mask by chris aciares