Vispo: Nothing New / Wyndham Lewis

RTomens, 2022

How sick such men must be with 

the wearisome and endless trifling that 

they have come to associate with the word Artist!

- Wyndham Lewis

 

Letter stamp/collage: I Am Right / Agatha Christie: science-fiction writer (!)

RTomens, 2022

Having some fun with Beverley Hare's Be Assertive book, a recent charity shop purchase because I knew I'd be able to use the pages; not in the way she intended, of course. Still, since it's new in The Cave it sits face up and I keep seeing the title so perhaps, subconsciously, it is influencing me to be assertive. Putting the new letter stamp kit to use.

I never knew that Agatha Christie was a science-fiction writer until this morning, when I saw a couple of her novels in the sci-fi section of the Kentish Town Oxfam shop. Fact. There too was Ian Rankin and John le Carré! Talk about 'can't get the staff'. I pointed them out to the assistant, who knows me, and cracked a few jokes. She laughed too as I pointed out several other crime books in amongst the sci-fi. So her and another assistant began taking them out. He went and got some actual sci-fi to put in their place. I was standing nearby, spotting this in the pile he was holding...

...lucky me! I've just started out on a mission to collect classic David Pelham covers. So thanks to the new volunteer in the shop yesterday who put crime novels on the sci-fi shelves. Their mistake was my good fortune. 

Letter stamp art: Excuse Me / Dancing robots

RTomens, 2021

 

'Excuse me for breathing!' I don't know if that saying is commonly used anymore. 'Cobblers'. Does anyone say 'cobblers' to anything nowadays? Oh, the modern generation don't know what they're missing...

Anyway, I've been playing with the letter stamps over the last few days. There's something satisfying about pressing a letter onto paper...kind of magical. It's not so much fun, however, when you drop the box holding the letters and they all spill out. It took us a good hour to put them all back in order (which they weren't before). 

From a very old print technology to this, new from Boston Dynamics, robots dancing to The Contours classic, Do You Love Me? You've got to love this...