SMALL FACES UNBOUND
SMALL FACES UNBOUND The title of this collection comes from the lyric in, The Byrds’ song, “Eight Miles High.” This ripe phrase evokes a range of fantastic imagery; uninhibited children, shrunken heads, unencumbered puppets and marvelous dismemberment to name a few things that popped into my head. Rather than discovering hidden faces or seeing them in inanimate objects (pareidolia), we focused on indelible visages—stark, psychological and philosophical—existential and mythological, some animal, some mysterious and some absurd. January 19-22, 2017. Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 W 18th St, New York, NY 1001. Additional show information: stevenspowers.com
SMALL FACES UNBOUND
The title of this collection comes from the lyric in, The Byrds’ song, “Eight Miles High.” This ripe phrase evokes a range of fantastic imagery; uninhibited children, shrunken heads, unencumbered puppets and marvelous dismemberment to name a few things that popped into my head.
Rather than discovering hidden faces or seeing them in inanimate objects (pareidolia), we focused on indelible visages—stark, psychological and philosophical—existential and mythological, some animal, some mysterious and some absurd.
January 19-22, 2017.
Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 W 18th St, New York, NY 1001. Additional show information: stevenspowers.com
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“Spiritualist Criterium”<br />
Robert M. Clark, Formerly Sherif [sic], Ventura County, Califonia [sic]<br />
DeWitt State Hospital, Placer County, California<br />
Date: March 16 th 1954<br />
Size: 9" (w) x 12" (h)<br />
A fascinating seven page document written by a patient at the DeWitt State Hospital, California<br />
(the same hospital and period in which Martín Ramírez was institutionalized). The patient<br />
identifies as a “Robert M. Clark, former sherif [sic] of Ventura County,” and writes to “Dr. C. R.<br />
Jackson, MD In Charge” about a “morphinism disturbance.” He weaves in a cast of characters<br />
and a convoluted story involving morphine, prohibition and the Baptist Synod of Los Angeles to<br />
name a few details.<br />
The writing reminds one of William S. Burroughs’ morphine driven Dadaists vignettes of the<br />
1950’s. It’s vivid and at times quite engaging with some well structured thoughts and colorful<br />
phrases, however the whole is somewhat incohesive and difficult to follow—yet spellbinding!
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