Whaddya mean it "no longer exists?" That's crazy! Too bad, so sad.
But entirely rad, this art was a fad, my comrad, not to be had, maybe it's in baghdad.
I think i ended up "donating" the chalkboard to the school of art at IWU. The laser prints, i might still have buried somewhere. Those were done on the old Techtrnoix WAX printer. That thing was soooo slow. But it actually printed wax on paper. Like, we had to put these wax cartridges into the printer, and it would melt them and put it onto paper in tiny dots. Not color accurate at all. But it certainly made for interesting possiblities with melting the wax and stuff like in this piece.
Oh wow! Really!? That is so cool! Who cares if it took forever...now it just sounds like a lost medium. That is crazy rad!
Hmmm, yes. The wax techtronix medium is a "lost medium." That's an interesting way of putting it.
I heard that a couple years ago that printer spontaneiously caught on fire. Maybe it was because my brother used to print his resumes on SANDPAPER through it. All that sand finally clogged up the machine after the years.
HA! That's hilarious! What a fun idea though: printing your resume on sandpaper! I guess there wasn't any adult supervision around or signs on the machine that said "Please Do Not Use Sandpaper In The Wax Techtronix Machine"
The text of this poem comes from
The Song of Milkanwatha, by Rev. George A. Strong (1832–1912):
He killed the noble Mudjokivis.
Of the skin he made him mittens,
Made them with the fur side inside,
Made them with the skin side outside.
He, to get the warm side inside,
Put the inside skin side outside;
He to get the cold side outside
Put the warm side fur side inside.
That's why he put the fur side inside,
Why he put the skin side outside,
Why he turned them inside outside.
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That's a great piece of work. The Beuys/Warhol connection was a magic thing in art...and you did a nice job here.
Beuys was one of those rare artists that can make you cry. Yes, pity it doesn't exist...
I like the poem.
