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/
> 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
>
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>> 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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>>>
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