A BUTCHER’S hook/look (Cockney rhyming slang)
Visual Aids
Every year Visual Aids holds a sale of 4x6 artworks - Postcards from the Edge 2025 with over 1580 original artworks presented anonymously - all priced at just $100 raising $ to fight AIDS, supporting HIV+ artists. This will be the 10th year I have donated a piece that anyone can buy, wherever they are. I can’t show you the piece in the show yet (it’s anonymous), but here are some of my past year donations.
Online Sale: Begins at 10am on Saturday, January 25th (preview online Friday 24th) The gallery will be open on Saturday from 12–5pm and Sunday 12–4pm for in-person shopping and order pickup.
In Person: The Collector Party is 5–6:30pm at BERRY CAMPBELL GALLERY (524 W 26th Street)
No paint paint
A while back I went to the pre-auction show of rare & classic cars at Sotheby’s - a real eye full of fantastic machines, most dating from many decades past, so it was quite surprising to see this 2007 Bugatti Veyron Pur Sang (pure blood). I had to look closely to see that it wasn’t painted blue - but layers (and layers) of tinted lacquer over a carbon fiber body. Amazing.
‘Constructed from multiple layers of ultra-fine fibers—each approximately one-tenth the width of a human hair strand—carbon-fiber panels depend on fiber alignment for their structural integrity. The visible fibers are arranged to form a fluid pattern that follows the car’s lines.’
I went to the actual auction as well - which provided a glimpse into another world. The man in front of me bought 6 cars(!) When this Bugatti came up, the starting bid was $1 million, next a bloke stands up and bids $2.1 million - there’s a gasp and the hammer comes down - he won it. Shock and awe.
cleaning up
postcard world
It’s a pretty good feeling when I find connections between cards, especially found at different times. How about these two landscape road cards that are generic to the point that two different places claim it as their own. A quick change of season on the same photo and voila! It’s Somerset County in Pennsylvania and/or Warwick, New York
I wonder where that liminal space in the two postcards actually is!