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[The bad air smelled of roses
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- Creator
- Carl Pope]
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- [United States] : [publisher not identified], [2005?]
- Physical Details
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- 71 broadsides : color illustrations ; 56 x 36 cm
- OCLC
- ocn460718041
- Title and author information from typed sheet accompanying broadsides.
- Seventy one letterpress broadsides, with varying dimensions, used for the installation of "The bad air smelled of roses" 2005. Letterpress printed with wood type on poster and chip board at York Show Print, York, Alabama and Tribune Show Print, Earl Park, Indiana, 2004-2005. Nearly all the broadsides are signed by the artist.
- "Reading the works of Ralph Ellison and Ishmael Reed inspired my poetic meditations about various meanings and implications of Blackness and marginality. For me, Blackness not only includes notions of African-American identity but also address those things that exist at the edge of the repressed barrier of our individual and collective consciousness. The universe of the unseen including the entire realm of the unconscious and various psychological and emotional states like forgetfulness, insanity, alienation are associated with the poetics of Blackness. It is my feeling that Black people have a unique relationship to Blackness and that relationship is the focus of my project. With the use of humor together with unconventional narrative and visual organization, it is my aim to expand the internal space of creative freedom and possibility within the imagination of the viewer. Visions of freedom, revolution, innovation and possibility are not created within the repressed areas of the conscious mind. It is discovered at the frontier of the subconscious. My aim with is to stimulate the viewer's awareness of those marginal internal spaces for inspiration, insight and external action. Using letterpress posters seems fitting because of its historical use in advertising and politics."--Artist statement from typed sheet accompanying broadsides.