Irrealist Psycho-Geography in southern Illinois (2021).

Irrealist Psycho-Geography in southern Illinois (2021).

Irrealist Psycho-Geography in southern Illinois (2021).

Irrealist Psycho-Geography in southern Illinois (2021).

Irrealist Psycho-Geography in southern Illinois.

Irrealist Psycho-Geography in southern Illinois.

Irrealist Psycho-Geography in southern Illinois.

Irrealist Psycho-Geography in southern Illinois.

Wounded Tool 32593-T – Bee Smoker (bandaged in a poem by Alexander Billet) - When the last bees died, the bee smoker filled itself with crystal meth in a failed suicide attempt. Unchecked it will float around the countryside getting people high, but only if they don’t want to be, and especially if they suffer from anxiety disorder. The Wounded Tool Library is attempting to teach the bee smoker to only get people high with their consent. Until then its pain is being managed with poem bandaging.

Wounded Tool 326501-T - Box Grater (wrapped in a poem by Michael Linaweaver): Abandoned after the mass marketing of pre-packaged shredded cheese, this box grater fell into a deep depression. Unchecked it will deprive middle-class white people of the shredded cheese they 'need' for their 'fajitas,' and will turn grated food material into aluminum filings. It has been wrapped in the poem '2046' to ameliorate its psychological pain. (July 2020)

Wounded Tool 32590-92-T - Harmonicas - When the last human being who remembered Leadbelly’s “We Shall Be Free” died, this group of harmonicas went into a sort of psychosis. They have been put into suspended animation in Whiskey in hopes that a cure can be found. If exposed to the air they will begin a rendition of “Gloomy Sunday,” causing mass suicides within a 3.5 mile radius.

Wounded Tool 32596-8-T - Sickles (Wounded Tool Library, Born Again Labor Museum): "Like most sickles, these artifacts grew tired of harvesting crops and cutting weeds long before they were replaced by electrical and motorized tools. After misunderstanding Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass – a book very popular among sickles – these artifacts aspired to become poets. The sickles, however, are only capable of harvesting words from already existing poems. Before being captured by the Wounded Tool Library these sickles harvested most of the poetry in the St. Louis public library." (2019)

BALM’s Irrealist Mutual Aid Project (2023-ongoing)

BALM’s Irrealist Mutual Aid Project (2023-ongoing)

Communist Manifesto Distribution Project (2021-ongoing)

Communist Manifesto Distribution Project (2021-ongoing)

Communist Manifesto Distribution Project (2021-ongoing)

“Grand Saline Piney Woods Encampment, part 1” painting/collage, acrylic, graphite, ink, Sharpie, paper, canvas, stickers, drawings, paintings, old Star Wars coloring book pages, continuous feed printer paper, instructional sheet music, water-color, prints, Post-it Notes, found materials, coffee, poly-wool yarn, cotton and ash on canvas tarp (2023)

“So ILL Nightmare” - acrylic, graphite, charcoal, collage, mixed-media, found materials, stickers, coffee, cotton and ash on canvas tarp (2023).

"'Merica? We Don't Get None of That Out Here in These Parts" - acrylic, graphite, charcoal, coffee, collage, cotton and ash on canvas tarp

“Groomer Saves the Children” - acrylic, graphite, charcoal, collage, paper plates (after Julian Schnabel), monitoring foam ECG/EKG electrodes, coffee, cotton and ash on canvas tarp

Acrylic, ink, marker, charcoal, graphite, prints, stickers, drawings on sheet music, city maps, canvas, found material collaged with wig hair, glitter, coffee, cotton and ash on canvas tarp.

Digital prints, acrylic, drawings, mixed-media, Amazon Prime package material, found material, wig hair, glitter, coffee, cotton and ash on canvas.

Digital prints, acrylic, buttons, drawings, mixed-media, found materials, glitter, wig hair, cotton and ash on canvas.

Acrylic, collage, wig hair, glitter, mixed-media, found materials, prints, coffee, cotton and ash on canvas.

"Don't Turtle During Hyphal Fusion," painting and collage, digital prints, floppy disks, painting, drawing, coffee, ash, found media on canvas tarp (based in part on stories from Tish Turl’s "Stink Ape Resurrection Primer")

“Cat Without a Grin” (after Chris Marker, Jase Short, and Robert Longo) - painting, collage, prints, mixed-media, coffee, glitter, wig-hair, cotton and ash on canvas tarp (2021).

"Snek Rallies the Oil Snakes, while Aelita Beheads Elon Musk, and Possum Sings Against the Rain” - mixed media collage, prints, paintings, and drawings, with coffee, cotton and ash on canvas tarp, based in part on Tish Turl’s "Stink Ape Resurrection Primer," Alexi Tolstoy’s novel "Aelita" and the film adaptation, and Aimé Césaire's "Journal of a Homecoming."

When they came for us we held out in the Vivarium Annex -- once known as Sunset Haven; the old county poor house and farm; what the kids wrongly called the Old Insane Asylum on Old Insane Asylum Road.

"Little Egypt Burial #1: The Space Comrades Can't Make It So Warm Yourself By The Riot Fire." Acrylic, ink, marker, stickers, photocopies, post-it notes, graphite, continuous feed printer paper, used surgical mask, coffee, cotton and ash on collaged canvas and canvas tarp (August, 2020).

“Social Resurrection Task Prints.” Digital photographic prints with paint, cotton and ash hanging on clotheslines, by Tish Turl and Adam Turl (2021).

“Social Resurrection Task Prints.” Digital photographic prints with paint, cotton and ash hanging on clotheslines, by Tish Turl and Adam Turl (2021).

“Social Resurrection Task Prints.” Digital photographic prints with paint, cotton and ash hanging on clotheslines, by Tish Turl and Adam Turl (2021).

Salt packets, glue, pedestals (2021-2022).

“Women of the 19th of September,” sewing machine, salvaged pedestal, bandages, stage blood, acrylic, cotton and ash (2022).

“Burger King Parking Lot’s Wife” - salvaged pedestal, salt packets, glue (2021)

Monuments for Essential Workers - traffic cones, hard hats, cheese cloth, gauze, plaster, and work/drop lights (April 2021).

It's Always October 2nd Someplace - chairs and desks, books, fake-blood (April 2021)

Apocalypse Rink - door, basketball hoop, paint, ink, cotton and ash, office mat, Soviet toy rocket, stool (March 2021).

Cicero's Pawns Pwn Cicero - pawns, gaming table, plaster, drawings, vellum and mixed-media (March 2021).

Opossum Box - The first artifact of the Born Again Labor Museum (BALM) was a reliquary containing the bones of an opossum infused with the spirit of an unknown victim of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Fire; victim 147. The bones were stolen during a 1968 BALM exhibition in Toledo, Ohio. They were recovered in September 2020 by Tish Markley and Adam Turl. Upon receiving the bones, Markley and Turl found they were covered in writing. Moreover, the bones kept screaming in pain. After several healing techniques were tried -- such as coupling the bones with wounded tools or post-industrial healing debris, or wrapping them in poetry -- they found that suspending the bones in a coal miner’s canary cage helped alleviate their suffering.