I always found this slogan provocative:
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On 7/29/07, Stephen Vincent <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Re Hiroshima:
>
> Yesterday I was thinking of a provocative act. To make white cloth envelopes
> with stencils of pictures and names of the Iraqi civilian dead. These would
> be temporarily, and periodically placed over the grave stones of soldiers in
> American, Australian and United States' military cemeteries.
>
> There would be huge, righteous outcry/outrage from certain, predicatable
> public sectors. But the act would level the dead and/or 'living' fields. In
> fact, I would call it an homage to the "living dead."
>
> It might also speaking to the living, albeit amputated outrage that I
> suspect many of us feel about this war, as well as a few other disastrous
> incursions in the 20th and 21st century.
>
> Stephen Vincent
> http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
>
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> > This reminds me of visiting Leicester some 20 or more years ago, and finding
> > some of the paths stencilled with human figures -- men, women, children,
> > lying as though surrounded by the chalked outlines indicating murder
> > victims. It was Hiroshima Day. And I could not bring myself to step on them.
> >
> > joanna
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Stephen Vincent" <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2007 7:42 AM
> > Subject: Re: New de blog
> >
> >
> >> Thanks, Peter. Stenciled sidewalk art is just gaining a toe hold(!) in San
> >> Francisco. Apparently it is all over Europe now. A German artist friend
> >> told
> >> me that Barcelona is filled with it to the point of way too much. Ironic
> >> how
> >> things are born, get a great peak, and then get destroyed by saturation
> >> and
> >> mediocre stuff - like subway cars in New York that got suffocatingly full
> >> of graffiti in the 80's. That help bring on the likes of Mayor Giuliani
> >> with
> >> heavy hitter cops, jail terms, etc.
> >>
> >> Oh, well. Poetry on the page or in the air forever!!
> >>
> >> Stephen V
> >> http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> Great post Stephen!
> >>> Eros Meets Stencil Art - Dolores
> >>> Park<http://stephenvincent.net/blog/?p=556>
> >>>
> >>> - Peter Ciccariello
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 7/28/07, Stephen Vincent <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
> >>>>
> >>>> Eros Meets Stencil Art - Dolores Park
> >>>> ... the way the erotic appearing dirt stain on a sidewalk
> >>>> unintentionally
> >>>> both augments and betrays the voice of a forlorn speaker. The way the
> >>>> red
> >>>> stencil ink - variously awash about the concrete - speaks to an enduring
> >>>> passion. A woman, I think. An artist who came west with her lover,
> >>>> either
> >>>> left him, or was betrayed, then set to stenciling the romance...
> >>>>
> >>>> "Green, green, I want you..." Haptic & Commentary
> >>>>
> >>>> Cantor Museum, Stanford University - Haptic
> >>>>
> >>>> 733 Guerrero - Haptic
> >>>>
> >>>> Joanne Kyger at City Lights - A Haptic with brief commentary.
> >>>>
> >>>> As always, comments appreciated.
> >>>>
> >>>> Stephen V
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
>
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