Fritz Haeg and Evil Twin Publishing are releasing
this month The Sundown Salon Unfolding Archive.
It's like a 380 page collection of everything that was the Sundown Salon.

One of my favorite illustrations with some related poems (egads!), and a short essay of mine are all packed in here amongst a trillion other contributions. I was also very happy to also contribute one of the 5 possible covers for the book (the caveman & dinosaur to the left)!

Sundown was a magnificent thing for LA when it was going off. A place where you could go and see and meet people doing really neat stuff. Maybe it was the  idiosyncratic space of the dome- or just the time- but Sundown events unpacked for the moment in LA a real grassroots arts scene. We all had heard of one another in some manner but the Salons offered some common ground to be precisely that, common. Objects weren't there at all, what mattered most was the energy of sharing. The diversity of ideas that flowed through the Dome was outrageous, and probably the reason that it was so vital.

The book retroactively composes an artifact from this ephemerality. Its unweildyness (again 380 pages) is it's strength. 1/2 photos 1/2 writing it's a document of what we were when we dreamed of being together as artists.

This diagram was developed in relationship to my contribution to issue # 6 of the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, a research project on Possibility and art work in the Blockades exhibit.

This diagram is paired with the "Traditional Protest" Diagram.

This diagram was developed in relationship to my contribution to issue # 6 of the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, a research project on Possibility and art work in the Blockades exhibit.

This diagram is paired with the "Distributed Protest" Diagram.

Counter Culture Dialectics was a diagram I dreamed up back in 2003/04. It synthesized a bunch of stuff I'd been thinking about in relations to counter cultural practices.

I wanted to conceptualize a continuum between historic avantegarde cultural practices through the classic period of the American Counter Culture, till today. This diagram and a few others ended up in this article in the JOAAP.