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AnOther
Piece (V3, No1)
AnOther Piece follows an
old pattern of a story found in the Brahmavaivarta Purana, (an oral tradition
of storytelling, dating before recorded history, from the Indus Valley). AnOther
Piece is a story from the Puranas told in the now, about the recognition
of the struggle to achieve a statement greater than your life in the face of death.
In Toc's own words, "It is really about the amazing internal conspiracy to
keep you from finding your art. But, anything worthy is always difficult."
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Stories of Yes (V4,No1)
This comic is
the subtext of a cognition, a realization personified in daylight. Imagine a Question
that has been traveling your mind since you were a kid. That Question, never finding
the Answer, loses hope, and he becomes a dark and scary thing like a wounded animal.
Then one day at a sudden crossroads the old Question meets an Answer, young, bright,
and fearless. She is The Answer
Yes. 20 pages
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of Life (V5,No1)
A teenage son in Lower
Utopia ponders a letter from his Animal-father telling him about life, love and
the Not-animal Powers (Women). (Winner of a big-beautiful Xeric Foundation grant.
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of Lower Utopia: Softdoor's Older Sister's I-AM Knot (V6,No2)
This 16 page comic - Kids of Lower Utopia; Softdoor's
Older Sister's I-AM Knot, V6 No 2, was published for my opening at The Ricco/Maresca
gallery NYC, 9/13/01, (two days after the fall of the World Trade Towers - this
timing was so bad that it achieved a feeling like a mythic wink). It is an eleven
page novel told in staged koans, earmarked moments of realization in the life
of River Scout Finnagain (Softdoor's older sister). Each page was made to stand
alone and
all together as a comic. The actual language is pure American
mutt. A crossbreed made up of part direct-observation, part axiomatic poetry,
part implied photo-faith, and all summed up in a language of graphite velocity
vectors (grow-language) under the influence of comic-read and cheek.
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and Love Letters from Joey Fool (V1 No1)
This was an experiment and my actual first work in book form from `96, in which
I allowed my interior Circus Psyche to run amuck in the direction of its "logical
absurdities". I have always been fascinated by our curious ability to read
entire stories out of single images (S.Holmes-ian style - inductive/deductive).
Every image carries its trajectory in a gestalt of clues. In this book of (splash-page)
diptychs I present random moments delineating the politics of a single interior
persona: Pope Joey - as he chats away. Pope Joey himself is my cheeky personified
superego who has accepted the authority to exist and the authority to answer for
it. (Superego: [a refresher] the moral or judicial branch of Self, the ideal rather
then the real that strives for perfection and truth rather then pleasure [sound
familiar?]).
V1 No1 is all poems and prose-poems. When I did all those
diptych pages back in 1996 I thought of each double page as the culminating splash-page,
each cut from the heart of a complete story. As if it were the splash page from:
The Adventure When PopeJoey Met God, or The Adventure In Which PopeJoey Blew Off
The Ether, or The Adventure In Which PopeJoey Has an Existential Birthday Party,
or The Adventure In Which PopeJoey Held A Birthday Party For Death, etcetera.
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of Lower Utopia: Of Softdoor Scout Finnagain and Daffodil Dash Eleven
(V6,No1)
Is a portrait of a child prodigy;
a prodigy not of the intellect but of the Heart. This is a contemporary story
of a 10-year old girl living in the Catskill Mountains born with a talent for
being Awake inside her own Dreams. A tribal Dreamer without a tribe in an age
blind to the effulgence of life. Through the innate echoes of ritual she draws
her beloved friend closer to her own Inner world and the old religion of Dreaming.
These two friends live saturated with the mighty powers of Insight, Awareness,
and Love. Living in a paradise of these talents, in a no-place called Lower Utopia.
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