Kids
of Lower Utopia -
V6 No1
Of Softdoor Scout Finnagain and Daffodil Dash Eleven
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.
(90 Pages).
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Kids
of Lower Utopia -
V6 No2
Softdoor's Older Sister's I-AM Knot
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. (16 Pages).
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Thanks and Love Letters from Joey Fool
This was an experiment and my actual first work in book form from 1996, 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?]). (32 pages).
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Facts
of Life (of a NoMan) - V5 No1
An animal father writes a letter (or prose poem) to his animal son Ramsee
all about the-birds-and-bee, love and women, father to son stuff. It is
a parody on the relationship between men and women. Or … maybe it's
just an Animal's love poem. (24 pages).
(I won a Xeric Foundation grant to publish this one).
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Simple 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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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." (20 pages).
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