from a series

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and suddenly, the

goes away

hearse

Suit/Case alludes to the insistence [or not] of memory. It "was" what you "saw," you "saw" what it "was" defines itself as a shadow-play that changes on the wall as the viewer moves or as the illumination changes it’s relative position or brighter/dimmer. The two panels represent either lens or screens with handles to carry the illusions of what one "saw" as well as what it "was" and set the stage for the arguments in explanations of memory that states the case of what one "saw" to suit the need of what "was."

You do it your way, I’ll do it mine... stretched out like the taffy-pull of a good argument, the bone-like configurations of Contention suggest the deep-marrow human desire, need
and struggle for personal identity and self-expression.

Sweet Little Nothings, those “sugary scrumptious, bet-you-can’t-eat-just-one, oh, go ahead have another” lays the groundwork for the basis of advertising and marketing, and the schemes inherent in getting a fool to part with his/her money. That “MMMMMMMMMM good...’ness” that turns “coerce” into “commerce.”

“We need a common enemy to unite us” is a quotation attributed to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Unwholely Alliances speaks code-like and in banner-like proclamation, to the substantively elusive yet assertive tone that inserts itself into political dialogue. The first twenty-five letterforms in the quotation have been cut symmetrically in half, spread horizontally or vertically apart, and attached to one of the fifty states from a dissected map of the United States. Each half letter-form/state combination was attributed either the color red or blue representing the divisive shorthand of political convenience used by politicians and pundits. With puzzling perplexity and riddle-like complication, the quote, originally meant as a call-to-action to bolster the “coalition of the willing,” might as well ask “What will bind us together... as a country, as a people, as a world?”... and “just exactly who is that enemy?”

Those pesky flashes of admission/non-admission that tweak us as we try to go about our business without worry, without care; like those tests they give for color-blindness, out of black and white quibble — a hazy shade of grey and shadow... the limitless definition of the Little White Lie.