There is some satisfaction in linking such disparate elements of language and image together as they emerge from what the Dadaists would have perceived to have been an extension of their notions concerning pure psychic automatism. From the negative of SPAM I decided must come something positive. For a month I pursued the SPAM arrivals - and the encoded peculiarities of narrative contained in the 'messages'. This has evolved into 'The Book of Spam' 'Infringements' (of privacy). Word and image items were plucked from a vast variety of fonts and unsolicited material - then - welded together into a kind of cybercollage. In the finish the product is that of a massively productive, but anonymous author/artist. 'Somebody else - not me'.
Some of the images are mine, but most have been purloined from CLIP ART sources, then composed around the writings of my SPAM tormentors- Van Triwotcan, Guadalupe Parson, Ronny Fitz, Millicent Washington, Gwendoline Pierce, Alfred Miller, Hershel Mayo, Jimmy Kaufman, Philip Wills, Kermit Crouch, Arlene Nolan, Vena Schaffner, Ahmed Gonzales - to name but a few.
Barry Cleavin
Do not seek answers
from technical support. Learn rather
to read sheep entrails.
ANON
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