Wednesday, August 24, 2016

142. Pastoral drafts } from the median.


Draft of [ Pastoral med – ian ], magenta Sharpie + type on W magazine fashion spread (a).


Draft of [ Pastoral med – ian ], magenta Sharpie + type on W magazine fashion spread (b).


Draft of [ Pastoral med – ian ], magenta Sharpie + type on W magazine fashion spread (c).


Draft of [ Pastoral med – ian ], magenta Sharpie + type on W magazine fashion spread (d).

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Two poems, “[ Pastoral med – ian ]” and “Franc – / {AND} {is} / es.” appear in Vestiges _02: Ennui, published by Black Sun Lit; the launch was August 11 at Unnameable Books in Brooklyn. In keeping with the theme of the issue, it is wholly appropriate that I neither attended nor was invited. Several did attend, brought together by anti-ennui violence, including Haley Hemenway Sledge. Her short story, “Two Girls,” is my favorite work in the issue. Her middle name, Hemenway, is also the name of a street in Boston, where the mysterious [ M ] once lived on bagels and acid.

4 comments:

  1. Why're Sharpies called so? I never heard of them til LOST season 3 finale. Are they like 9H pencils?

    Why are western fashion mags often so severe.

    Have you heard of POSCA pens? I hadn't, til maybe a year ago.

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  2. POSCA? No. Do tell. Are eastern fashion magazines less severe? I think the theme of the spread I used was nuns in Soviet Russia.

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    1. ah, sorry, I forgot to click the "notify" button...
      posca are water based marker-pens, they can be blended together for additional hues. Old ones pick up the hues of others.

      japanese fashion magazines are hyper-cute. They lose the "hyper" when aimed at the over 40s but otherwise retain the "cute" . . . and no perfume samples.

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  3. maybe like gouache in a pen? I'd never heard of them. An artist friend asked me to send them, as they are cheap here. So they must be a japanese product.

    A self-taught artist called ai-madonna does live-drawings etc, of hyper-cute possible NSFW girls. That is the current culture here.

    Soon the severe soviet-era nuns will move in and sort everything out & onto a path of righteousness.

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