3 by the Fire

Blues in Green

2012-01-22T08:32:00.001-08:00

Bill Matthews, Painting (Small)

Latest Charles Farrell PC

2012-01-21T13:37:00.002-08:00

Side 1

Latest Charles Farrell PC

2012-01-21T13:37:00.001-08:00

Side 2

Depressive

2012-01-21T07:18:00.000-08:00

Quick Response Photomontage
with a detail from one of my collages in the center

Zappa 10

2012-01-19T14:29:00.001-08:00

Sebastian Matthews

Title Card

2012-01-17T04:52:00.000-08:00

7 Things Ray Johnson Can Teach Us About Poetry

Ray Johnson "Creativity" Card

2012-01-17T04:51:00.000-08:00

Wild Card

A Man's Dream Life Blooms

2012-01-10T05:13:00.001-08:00

Quick Response Photomontage
Using Tumblr Images
Sebastian Matthews

Front Side

2012-01-10T05:12:00.000-08:00

Mail Art by Charles Farrell

New Mail Art

2012-01-09T10:31:00.001-08:00

Sent from Charles Farrell

Inlet (The Future)

2012-01-07T14:18:00.001-08:00

Images off Tumblr, One of Mine
Sebastian Matthews

Inlet (Detail)

2012-01-07T14:17:00.001-08:00

Photomontage (Using 3 Tumblr Images & 1 of My Photos)

CollageMontage

2012-01-07T10:07:00.000-08:00

CollageMontage

new photomontage

2012-01-07T06:05:00.003-08:00

working on new "photomontages"

2012-01-07T06:05:00.001-08:00

Not sure if this new technique is fool's gold, a process that I will move through to get to something else or a whole new approach. O well, it's fun to rearrange and rethink old images in different contexts...

Photomontage

2012-01-06T16:18:00.001-08:00

Photomontage

2012-01-06T16:16:00.001-08:00

Which Way?!

Photomontage

2012-01-06T16:15:00.001-08:00

Self-Portrait
Sebastian Matthews

White Rock Light

2012-01-03T10:41:00.000-08:00

2012-01-03T10:40:00.000-08:00

2012-01-03T10:39:00.000-08:00

2012-01-03T10:38:00.001-08:00

Men are from Mars...

2011-12-31T11:03:00.001-08:00

new collage

Small Town, Wrong Way (New)

2011-12-30T05:16:00.000-08:00

outtake from novel...

2011-12-30T05:14:00.001-08:00

It rained all day. Woke up to rain dribbling basketballs on the metal roof. I must admit I love this weather. Love walking around in the half-rain, no umbrella, just a light rain jacket. The lushness of everything. The trees rustling in the wind, dropping curtains of rain. If each day included two hours of sun perfectly timed with a hike, or a trip downtown, or some grilling with friends on their patio, I could live with this weather all summer. Maybe a two-week block without rain, in the mid-70s, always a breeze, bright and sunny. But then back to the bluster. It's true, I like it this way, for it fits my inner life. Allows me to move happier in my body....

As for my father, Ian Hughes, the progenitor of this story, its main confessor, and where he ended up or might still be—and where Linus Grey aka American Crow might reside now, if he ever existed in the first place—that I leave up to you to figure out. I can tell you briefly what went into my decisions in organizing and designing the contents of the box into the manuscript that lies now so placidly in your hands, disguised thinly as a novel. How, in hopes of providing a basic map of the territory (if not an actual path to follow), I have left as many blazes along the way. You should at least be able to follow our trusty Narrator on his journey, for his trail is relatively fresh. Be patient. Though it takes him a while to get going, when he does get moving, I assure you, you’ll be hard pressed to keep up. I wish you could hear for yourself his strange, melodious voice that starts every story he tells—and he tells a good many—in a syrupy jazz crooner voice but ends jumbled and confused, the last words and syllables strangled and garbled in his quavering mouth. The man who crosses the threshold of the tale is not always the man who stumbles out.

Evasive

2011-12-30T05:13:00.001-08:00

Collage Mural by Sebastian Matthews

60s Poster

2011-12-30T05:12:00.000-08:00

...grabbed off Tumblr.

from Thomas Rain Crowe

2011-12-28T09:54:00.001-08:00

this winter sun-filled day!

"To Kate"

2011-12-26T05:40:00.002-08:00

Kurt Schwitters

Outtake from "Message in a Bottle: An Intro," on Kurt Schwitters:

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Kurt Schwitters, one of Ray’s early heroes along with Duchamp, came to label his collages “Merz,” signifying an “openness to everything.” In her essay on Schwitters in DADA, Dorothea Dietrich writes: “Merz designated above all a collage process that Schwitters defined so broadly that it could be applied to any and all matter of things, so much that he also considered his own works of art as collage material for later projects, thus creating a rich web of connections that extended into space and time.” Of course, this could be said about Ray, as well.
There’s a Schwitters’ piece that he made in Germany in 1947, entitled “For Kate,” that carries all the essential Ray attributes. It’s a postcard collage sent to Kate Steinitz, with a handwritten note to her inside the collage. Swchwitters has signed and dated the piece in the left-hand corner. He’s glued the found papers in a rough manner, and the post office has stamped the images, which appear to come from comics, magazines and books. In the center of the collage resides a lovely woman surrounded by other figures—a bearded man above, a strange bald man to her right who appears to be brandishing a stick (though it’s really a piece of paper laid down by the artist); there’s another bearded man behind her grimacing, and another woman directly to her left whose arm reaches across the heroine’s torso, profile hiding her facial expression. The woman is bisected by a bar or line and her hands are up as if in defense. It seems her beauty and sensuality have gotten her boxed in. Or she's dreaming, surrounded by dream figures encircling her in her sleep.

The Other Sex

2011-12-24T06:09:00.000-08:00

3 Postcards

Loitering

2011-12-24T05:35:00.000-08:00

From the Archives

Threshold Bridge

2011-12-24T05:34:00.001-08:00

Computer Collage
Sebastian Matthews

Bark Break

2011-12-20T12:53:00.000-08:00

Cowboy on His Horse

2011-12-17T05:39:00.000-08:00

Collage by Sebastian Matthews

Small Town, Wrong Way

2011-12-10T06:10:00.000-08:00

Sebastian Matthews

Jumpin'

2011-12-10T06:09:00.000-08:00

Collage/Color Xerox
by Sebastian Matthews

The Sky is Falling

2011-12-06T06:57:00.001-08:00

Epiphany

2011-12-06T06:56:00.001-08:00

Photo by Sebastian

Bill's Latest (One of)

2011-12-06T06:55:00.001-08:00

Painting by Bill Matthews

Pamela's Art Table

2011-12-03T15:54:00.000-08:00

Guest Snapper: Pamela Sztybel

Image off Tumblr

2011-12-03T15:50:00.000-08:00

Entitled: World's Laziest X-Mas Lights

Schultz image off Tumblr

2011-12-01T11:23:00.001-08:00

Stand In Self-Portrait

25 Easy Pieces

2011-11-27T04:54:00.000-08:00

at the William King Museum in Abingdon, VA

Collaborative Collage, Travis & Nicole

2011-11-26T13:00:00.001-08:00

5 Walnut Wine Bar & Gallery

More Collages by Nicole & Travis

2011-11-26T12:59:00.000-08:00

5 Walnut Wine Bar & Gallery

2011-11-25T06:46:00.000-08:00

War Zones

T-shirt design

2011-11-22T04:34:00.000-08:00

"Neither Difficult, Nor Easy"

Happy Warrior Boy

2011-11-16T16:42:00.000-08:00

post-it drawing by Avery
found in his bed this morning

BMC Mural

2011-11-15T04:35:00.001-08:00

5 Walnut St.
Asheville

New "Julie" Painting

2011-11-14T06:27:00.000-08:00

by Bill Matthews

Co/Lab 3

2011-11-12T06:43:00.000-08:00

Collaborative Collage
Travis Medford & Nicole McConville
5 Walnut Gallery, Downtown Asheville

Green Man

2011-11-11T14:35:00.000-08:00

Green Man

New Image, Old Image

2011-11-10T04:26:00.001-08:00

Shaman

Lady of the Moon

2011-11-03T13:19:00.001-07:00

Guest Collagist: Charles Farrell

2011-11-03T13:17:00.000-07:00

Larry & Diane's Place

Modernity

2011-10-29T08:59:00.001-07:00

Car Wreck

2011-10-27T08:58:00.001-07:00

Upcoming Show

2011-10-21T05:03:00.001-07:00

Check out New Ray Johnson Issue

2011-10-18T13:50:00.000-07:00

http://www.blackmountainstudiesjournal.org/wp/

Check Out New Ray Johnson Issue (I'll Say it Again)

2011-10-18T13:49:00.000-07:00

http://www.blackmountainstudiesjournal.org/wp/

Ladies Man (Playboy's Dream)

2011-10-08T07:04:00.000-07:00

Detail of WOMAN

Wake Up Call

2011-10-04T15:47:00.001-07:00

Woman

2011-09-27T15:15:00.000-07:00

Sebastian Matthews

Crash Derby, New Hampshire

2011-09-26T05:28:00.001-07:00

Guest Snapper: Charter Weeks

Old Magazine Image

2011-09-20T15:16:00.000-07:00

Hospital Field Service

In Defense of the Oxford Comma

2011-09-18T08:27:00.000-07:00

Close-Up

2011-09-17T07:07:00.001-07:00

on a Linus Grey card

Old Saturday Evening Post image

2011-09-13T14:26:00.000-07:00

Sebastian in Bathroom

2011-09-13T05:06:00.001-07:00

Recovery

Urban Fantasy # 3

2011-08-02T17:49:00.000-07:00

Detail

Dogs with Car

2011-08-01T17:10:00.000-07:00

Avery Age 8

At First Sight

2011-07-30T09:13:00.001-07:00

Sebastian Matthews

Linus Grey Blues

2011-07-24T08:40:00.001-07:00

Card 7, Front Side

Linus Grey Blues

2011-07-24T08:39:00.001-07:00

Card 7, Back Side

Linus Grey Blues Card 6 (Front)

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Linus Grey Blues Card 6 (Back)

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Linus Grey Blues Card 5 (Back)

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Linus Grey Blues Card 5 (Front)

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Linus Grey Blues Card 2 (Front)

2011-07-24T05:16:00.000-07:00

Linus Grey Blues Card 2 (Back)

2011-07-24T05:15:00.000-07:00

Linus Grey Blues Card 3 (Back)

2011-07-24T05:14:00.000-07:00

Linus Grey Blues Card 3 (Front)

2011-07-24T05:11:00.000-07:00

Linus Grey Bues

2011-07-23T06:42:00.000-07:00

Card 4 (Back Side)

Linus Grey Blues

2011-07-23T06:40:00.000-07:00

Card 4 (Front Side)

Linus Grey Blues Card 1 (Back)

2011-07-21T19:11:00.000-07:00

Front Side, Card 1 (New Series)

2011-07-21T19:06:00.000-07:00

Goat Love

2011-07-18T04:55:00.000-07:00

Photo by Bill Matthews

Beach Bum

2011-07-17T18:37:00.001-07:00

Photo by Charles Farrell

2011-07-16T18:17:00.000-07:00

Makin Whoopee

Road Weary

2011-07-11T04:16:00.001-07:00

2011-07-10T10:20:00.001-07:00

Bridge to Seapoint, Sun

Wallpaper Strips

2011-07-04T17:11:00.000-07:00

Self-Portrait

2011-07-03T05:28:00.000-07:00

...in collage snapshots

Boat Rack, Crystal Lake

2011-07-02T15:12:00.000-07:00

Pritchard Park

2011-06-04T13:38:00.001-07:00

at Dusk

Avery Honeysuckling

2011-06-01T04:14:00.000-07:00

Late Night Self

2011-05-29T15:15:00.000-07:00

Sex Gambler

2011-05-19T05:36:00.001-07:00

Old Book Cover

Mixed Message Board

2011-05-09T17:39:00.001-07:00