When the quarantine began the Born Again Labor Museum was no longer able to go into the world to salvage the artifacts of working-class dreams. Using remote viewing techniques encoded in Kurt Vonnegut’s novel, Galapagos, we were able to astral project through time and space. We transcribed into stories, visual images, and written fragments what we experienced and saw in the vastness of time. But, for some reason, every time we projected ourselves, our bodies absorbed the DNA of seals – slowly turning us into half-persons, half-seals, in the middle of the Nevada desert.
BALMLETTER #2 (preliminary cover) altered digital photograph from the secret Nevada BALM storage facility (2020)
Flamingo Caducues (Preliminary Sketch 4 a Monument to the Las Vegas Victims of Covid 19) drawing + digital collage (2020)
Plague Angel/Toilet Paper with Wings toilet paper, costume wings, thread (2020)
E-Cential Owl vs. Freedom drawing and digital collage (2020)
Remote Viewing: The 1906 Goldfield Strike altered digital photograph (2020)
Truck Nuts, Hands Off, Why Hide Them? drawing and digital collage (2020)
Plague Angels Spit + Swallow painting and collage on unstretched canvas (2020)
Tru History of Ur Snake Oil drawing and digital collage (2020)
Waldheim vs. Plague King this painting/collage was acquired in the first week of the quarantine * acrylic, ink, collage, printer paper, maps, other materials, coffee, cotton, ash on canvas. It seems to represent a war on the astral plane between the residents of Waldheim Cemetery and an obscure figure knows as the “Plague King” (2020)
Hand-O-Fate (after Emory Douglas) drawing and digital collage (2020)
No! 2020 for Boris (after Boris Lurie) drawing, collage + digital collage (2020)
Dis-Arm the Enemy of Liber-T drawing and digital collage (2020)
Kentucky Goes Back to Work this painting/collage was acquired on Day 37 of the quarantine * acrylic, Ink, Sharpie, Oil, collage, mixed-media, coffee, cotton and ash on canvas
Harvest Them drawing and digital collage (2020)
Little Egypt Burial #3 the first product of remote viewing from the new southern Illinois BALM headquarters * acrylic, ink, paper, mixed-media, coffee, digital prints, cotton and ash on unstretched canvas. From a meditation on Courbet’s Burial at Ornans we saw the future mass graves of southern Illinois.
Lib-T drawing and digital collage (2020)
Commute with Invisible Monsters drawing and digital collage (2020)
Day 29 in the Poor Room this painting/collage was acquired on the 29th day of the quarantine * acrylic, ink, Sharpie, oil, drawings, digital prints, found material, coffee, surgical mask, latex glove, cotton and ash on unstretched canvas. Written on its edges are a story about two vampires who are under house arrest on the surface of the sun.
Remote Viewing: Dead Goebbels altered digital photograph (2020)
Workers Argus Panoptes drawing and digital collage (2020)
Cyborg Painting #1: Every time a Cyborg Heart Beats an Essential Worker Loses Hero Pay acrylic, ink, coffee, tobacco, cotton and ash on “AI Generated Painting” (retailed at $44 online). This painting is not anti-cyborg. A lot of essential workers who lost hero pay are cyborgs. They imprison us all with the work of our beating hearts.