We Own This Country & The Death Urge

We Own This Country The Death Urge These are the collage illustrations I made back in September for two of the books I was working on at the time. These images work well with the texts they were constructed to illustrate, but I wanted to present them here independently as I think they hold up rather well on their own as images. Debord, while very critical of the preponderance of images and the negation of language and complex thought in contemporary culture, made a distinction between false and truthful images. I believe these pictures that I'm presenting here are true reflections of contemporary North American Society and its dominant Spectacle.

Feliz Cumpleaños, Chopan!

Since this Fine Looking Cholo's Birthday is in two Days and mine is Today, I'm putting these up as a Kind of Present to both of us.

A Caribbean Sailor in New York

The exquisite Young Man here depicted used two different Monikers in his Short Career in Gay Pornography, namely Sinbad and Pistol. Though he spoke both Spanish and English, he did so with a French Accent, which may lead one to believe that this West Indian Islander came from Haiti on the Island of Hispaniola. As one can see, he was amiably versatile in his Proclivities and well worth watching in all the Activities he was paid to engage in. What became of him subsequent to these brief Semi-public Performances I'm sadly unable to say. One can only hope that he's as healthy and happy as he appears in these Fugitive Stills surreptitiously pulled from that great Public Archive known as the Net. I truly wish him well and thank him here for all the Pleasure he has brought me and those others who so worship his undeniable and haunting Beauty.

French Postcards sent in 1984

The little Paintings presented here for the First Time, Twenty Eight Years after their making, were mostly painted in France in Youth Hostel Kitchens from Memory in the Evening following Days of walking. The Places depicted are: Paris, Montreuil sur Mer, Amiens, Rouen, Vienne sur Rhône, Lyon, Marseille, Tarascon sur Rhône, Nimes, Dijon, Luxembourg, and Dover.