Further Investigation

they live their life and their art, originally uploaded by benignpxl.

My friend Pxl is a great collage artist. In opposition to his name, his art is all done by hand. With sewing scissors, and found ephemera. He just bike toured through Mexico for a long long time. Sort of a rocker!

Pxl's art


A quote on craft, from my "bits" journal*

"And it may be that certain forms of play are an escape hatch for us from technology; a theraputic hope, a little more methexis mixed into our memesis. That is, participation, as well as imitation.....
If all of us had more movie cameras and tape recorders and silkscreens; if we designed our own furniture, shaped our own glassware, wove our own tapestries, set our own type, we might knit up the unraveled sleeve of self.
The rush of esthetic theories upon us, while we lie numb under the machines, has divided us from our experience, has stylized our responces. We do not understand but attitudinize. Craftmanship, the self-shaping of privacy, the healthgiving labor, could be our way out."

I wrote this in pencil on the back of some flyer and glued it in the journal in Summer 2006.......so it is, as Pau Davisl says; content without context. But oh well. It's from John Leonard, in 1968.
If I find out anything else about it I'll let you know.


* I keep actual physical paper journals as well as a blog. Jeez Louise, right?!
1."The bits" journal, for things that inspire me, but that I did not write. 2. The tattoo sketch journal. 3. The Kai's own writing journal which no one will ever see! 4. Various travel journals, for painting or drawing while I go through the world. 5. A Moleskine notbook for random stuff I need to remember, lists of things I want to do, train schedules, phone numbers and adresses, etc.