November 20, 2009
Slaybell Slapdown
Our offering for the DIFFA Holiday Auction fundraiser, a wreath made for auction Saturday night. I debated a long time whether to post it or not. Is it tacky? Yes. Is it funnish? Yes. Badly executed? I’ll let you be the judge. Here’s a less-than image. Somehow, it reads better in person.
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I’m told by a person in the office, who has knowledge of such things, that these wrestler action figures might “fetch as much as $10 apiece on E-bay. They’re old,” she said. She pointed to one. “He’s dead,” she said. Honestly, Danny and I should go bid on it and if we get it, give it to Danny’s brother in Des Moines for Christmas. He’s an aficionado.
Rick–this is cool. It reminds me of a Diane Williams story called “Setting Free the Masters.” In your first picture here, I love the way…shall we call him “Peck”?…demonstrates that even injury won’t stand in the way of dominion. But I wonder: Do you think he knows that clubbed fingers is a sign of conjestive heart failure? This just makes the tableau all the more tragic for the holiday season.
fantastic!
Daryl
There is something about toys used to convey something of the world at large. There’s something innocent, yet something…at odds wtih…I felt it as I put this piece together. At once, for me, knowing pulling it together seemed wrong, yet unable to stop myself. When I set the first figure on the wreath, I saw what I was capable of showing. At the end, knowing this was something dark and awful.
We picked up these figures at a second-hand store. And the wreath and the lights. When there, I noticed folks shopping there in earnest.
With all that is going on in the world, what the fuck am i doing? Making fun? I hope not. The proceeds from this wreath, if there are any, will hopefully go toward some good in the world and not to line the pocket of some fucker who knows how to work a system. But ultimately, I don’t know.
It is tragic, Daryl. And yet…? And yet. I think I’ve never known a Christmas without the tragic being some part of it.
Daryl
There’s a world of Williams I need to read.
This just makes the tableau all the more tragic for the holiday season.
Just the way I like ‘em.
Two thoughts:
1) Aw man, now my house will never look as festive as that.
2) Sometimes you don’t know you’re missing something, until you do.
I want to commission a crèche by Ricky Cameron.
Thanks y’all.
Sheila, oddly enough, while we were in the second hand store, there was a punch-out, fold and assemble book for 25 cents. It was the manger scene. The thought crossed my mind, I could buy it, punch it and assemble the figures on a wreath. Alas, the Baby Jesus and Mother Mary had already punched out. They were gone. Every other figure was intact. I let the book lie. You can’t have much of a manger scene without the central figures. Or may be you can. I may have to go back and get it. If I can remember which second hand store it was.
Maybe you could use tinsel to represent the missing ineffable essences.