Tom Walker wrote:
What I do may appear to be more of an aesthetic than a
strategy. I dress up in an erstaz "nineteenth century"
outfit -- frock coat, top hat, waistcoat, poetical bow
tie -- and I top it off with a sandwichboard. And off
I go to into the marketplace on a secret mission: "to
educate the image creating medium within us to see
dimensionally, stereoscopically, into the depths of
the historical shade."
What I imagine myself to be doing is confronting the
novelty of the commercial message at its origin in the
early 19th century as a walking billboard. And people
do seem to recognize what I am doing as simultaneously
novel and anachronistic. At any rate people enjoy the
performance whether or not they 'understand' it. And I
understand it.
The Sandwichman
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Sorry, Tom. Hadn't seen this latest of yours when I sent my last e-mail. I
understand better where you're coming from now.
