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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Letters from (a State) Home<br />
Wrought by Verba Frazier (1900-1951)<br />
Mexia State Home, Mexia, Texas<br />
Circa: 1940’s<br />
Size of largest: 9" (h) x 6 1/4" (w)<br />
These poignant embroidered letters were wrought by Verba Frazier, a diagnosed<br />
schizophrenic (dementia praecox), from a state institution in Texas to her son,<br />
Hudson. These simple sentiments are rich with emotion and heartache.<br />
Verba Frazier was born in Pliny, West Virginia in 1900. She married John<br />
Hudson Pritchard and they had a son, Hudson in 1921. 1930 census records<br />
show the Pritchard family living together in Texas, however by 1940 Verba was<br />
divorced and living as an inmate at the Terrell State Hospital in Kaufman<br />
County, Texas. At some point she transferred to the Mexia State Home and<br />
lived there until her death in 1951.<br />
One of the letters is addressed to Hudson while he was living on West 77th<br />
Street in New York City. However, court records from the same period show<br />
Hudson in Los Angeles and getting into a bit of trouble with some minor burglaries—in<br />
one instance he was found wearing the clothes of the victim.
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