Radio Relay Towers: August 2011

Thursday, August 25, 2011

Wellspring is available!

I am very excited to announce the release of Wellspring: Poems 1993-2003. Wellspring collects ten years of poems. These poems are my first major body of work and reflect the main concerns in my current work. Each book is bound with four hand-pulled letterpress and lino-cut prints. The book is available at Publication Studio.
Wellspring is published by Publication Studio and Cumbersome Multiples.
I will be giving a reading at Publication Studio in Portland on Sept. 23. I'll be celebrating the release of Wellspring and Golems Waiting Redux also printed by Publication Studio.
More on the event in coming weeks.

Monday, August 22, 2011

Boise installation shots

Friday, August 5, 2011

Comics at the Crossroads

I'll be doing a large installation at the Boise Art Museum. I'm very excited to participate in the next incarnation of this museum survey of comics art. Comics at the Crossroads opens Aug 20.
I'll post progress shots of the installation.

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

New poster

I just finished printing the next round of Naked Boy posters. Here they are in the drying rack ready to go out into the world!

The Naked Boy

The Naked Boy is a birth of the nation story. The Naked Boy is spit out of the mouth of a whale. The Naked Boy is given the mission to follow the railroad west to kill the Great Bear. There are two narrative voices throughout the story. The first is the omniscient narrator, the poet. This voice uses the device of epic, heroic poetry. The second is Preacher Smith, a syndicated talk radio preacher. Preacher Smith is never seen, he broadcasts locally from everywhere the Naked Boy finds himself. Preacher Smith is the main agitator against the Naked Boy.

The Naked Boy Part 2

Summer is in the air as The Naked Boy saga continues. The Naked Boy grows older as he crosses the continent to kill The Great Bear. In this episode he meets a family of escaping slaves en route to Freedom City. Freedom City has another knickname- The City of Big Men, and the City of Big Men is the heart of a vast military industrial complex. The Governor of Freedom City is going to run for president and the Naked Boy is the key to his campaign. Ursula and The Great Bear try to find out who is keeping them from contacting The Naked Boy directly. And the Naked Boy continues to lose body parts as he rambles West in this exciting second chapter of this American epic.Click on picture to order. $10.00

The Green Man of Portland

Since Portland’s founding, sightings of small green archers have been reported throughout the city. Very few documents exist to confirm these rumors. Along with the archers, a celestial stag, a phantom building and a huge tree have been spotted, time-to-time, throughout Old Portland. Whenever the archer hits someone, her vision changes. An aura of flowers grows from the heads of passersby. Suddenly a building called “The Greenwood” is visible where there was no building before. A giant tree larger than any buildings in town towers over the city. On certain nights, a great white celestial stag is spied in the skies over Portland. The Green Man's arrows pierce the secret history of Portland.

The Naked Boy Poster Project