Dear Friends and Fellow Workers--
I am not dead (quoth the ghost--)--
but alert awake alive aware at:
david baptiste chirot
1767 N. Arlington Pl. # 28
Milwaukee, WI 53202
USA
and miss you all very very much--have not had email in it seems eons and
feel as though have moved steadily backward in time--
as for some time all had was lumber crayon and battered paper scraps to
work with--and no electronics either--no radio or clock etc--
learned a very great deal wd like to write you all about--
right now i am so to speak a federally & state funded artist!
as i was put on disabilty and medicaid etc--though i am still allowed to
work some place part time--
one day on my daily findings expeditions here doing my anarkeyology
work going through a dumpster--a police officer accosted me and wanted to
know what i was doing--i was making rubbings off a sign that had raised
lettering--poetically enough--a DANGER sign--
the officer asked me--and i replied--i am working for the government--on
a public works art project--and this is my research--here is an example--and
handed him a sheet with rubbings on it--
he was very impressed--the government is interested in this?
oh yes, very much--it is going to be quite a large project--
he wished me good luck--
please remember to send me works for my Palindrome project for the year
2002--the palindromatic year
also i am going to send to you a proposal i am making for the celebration
of Nazim Hikmet the great turkish poet that is this year
have been working quite a bit of late with the street findings as
always--and spray paint, collage, transfers, etc etc--both visual poetry
books andmany single works--also some works with nbb that as very wonderful
to work with her--
also i am working now for independent monthly paper--poetry andmusic
articles--
will be teaching workshop this summer at woodland patternbook center--
"gleanings"--uses of found materials for making visual poetry and mail
art--to get people to make connections among daily street environment local
scene daily life and global--via sending to calls and also eschanges via the
web . . .
i am writing an essay called
"necessity is the motherfucker of invention" that is a follow up to an
essay i wrote that is in KAIRAN 4 CALLED "REFUSE/REFUSE"
i will have this sent to you all shortly
thank you annklefstad for the brilliant address book!
it is beautiful and i love holding it up to the light flooding my room
and
thank you reed for all the mailings!
and john m. bennett!
must run
onwo/ards!
