PROOF 1,000 2012

The Blessed Virgin 2000

Actually, this is Maddie Eldridge shot unawares when she was just a teenager at Giovanna's baby shower. Always loved this image for its supernal grace and innocence and always meant to use it in something but never found a way. Some images are just too potent to be components of something else and must stand alone, I guess.

Happy Birthday, Joe Gustave 2012

Eroica (Italian: "heroic").

Happy Mother's Day 2011

Sixteen M's for my Mother - I love you, Mom.

Blurry, Blurry Night 2010

Here're some snapshots from "It's Getting Light" which was my art exhibition with Julie Malone

at Hoffman LaChance Contemporary in St. Louis, January 15th, from 6 - 10 pm (and and a bit beyond).

1. I actually really dislike snapshots, so, yes, I spruced these up in PS a bit with an accordance to how my actual memory has processed that evening.

2. Holding up a camera and a disposable, plastic glass at the same time is actually pretty hard.

3. The show and the evening were really fabulous success, so...

4. Thank you to everyone who was able to attend! You made it a great night for us!
Furthermore, I'd like to thank, Julie, my partner for this event...
Michael Hoffman and Alicia LaChance, our esteemed gallerists in this enterprise, without whom...
Michael Paradise, Mike and Joe Freeman, and Kevin Belford, whose contributions to the production of the work for this show are inestimable...
And, finally, to Nancy Jackson, who knows why.

Here's how it all looked to me.

HVD

Just under the wire!
Yippee for pair bonding!
It's just the greatest thing!
You guys are so lucky!

Two Valentines (19??/19??)

Happy Valentine's Day!
Here's hoping the year so far has broughten you all the love you desire!
And also that that desired amount is reasonable and modest.
You don't want to make a pig of yourself.
I think that as long as the love you desire does not exceed the love you deserve, you're pretty much okay.
But even less than that is better.
Sometimes, you know, it's difficult to gauge how much you deserve.
People usually way overestimate.
I suggest you take what you think is fair, and then cut that in half.
Then cut that half in half and you're probably okay.
An expectation of nothing is, of course, best.


Anyhow, here're a couple valentines I sent out years ago.
Or, well, obviously I didn't send these very ones, but others like em I did, for sure.

This one's from like '97 or '98.
I remember just having met Lois Chiles around that time (Yes! THE Lois Chiles! Not making this up!) and sending her one along with everyone else. Of course there was a full page of text behind the cover with the perforation and I remember feeling maybe just a little bit weird about this one line in there about, "your nipples in my mouth" or something...

True story.

Yeah, and this one's from... I'm gonna say '89 or '90 or '91 and was sent naked like a postcard, but mounted on a piece of 1/2" thick foamcore. It's always fun to challenge the U.S.P.S. but get this: my buddy Ed told me that just after the cards went out that he went down to his local Post Office, back when he was on Cahuenga in Hollywood, and one of our esteemed postal workers had xeroxed one of the cards and taped the copy up on the wall for their customers to enjoy. 

A shining moment in my career and a story I'll have to remember the next time I'm feeling suicidal.