Cows Coming Home with Portrait of the Artist in a Sideview Mirror

“You say you want a revolution”
Adrian Brody on the set of The Pianist
“Both thrilling and disturbing when you see your own son
	can conjure ghosts”
Blown-up Soviet barracks in East berlin used to represent 
	Poland in WWII
Striped pajamas on hangars framed against windowlight, Dachau
Office telephone on a desk in Stasi headquarters, former East Berlin
Political prisoners in TV drama, Budapest
Extra on the set of a musical film about Collectivism, Your Rigged Life
“It’s for you” photo of a disconnected line hanging from a telephone pole
In a dream, the sleeping car compartment Jung emerged from
Single flower stuck into the snow on snow covered grave with headstone 
	elaborate carving of a young girl holding bouquet of flowers.
Watching the dismantling of a paper mâché statue of Stalin 1989
Toppled, wrecked statues, from heroes row, as junk
Déjà vu all over again
Pretend execution of two teenage boys up against the Berlin Wall
Mother’s warning to daughter after collapse of Communism 1990,
	“Beware, things will get worse.”
Was she right?
Empty picture frame on a bureaucrat’s wall formerly reserved for a
	portrait of Marshall Tito, Belgrade
Marina, a porn actress getting a manicure watched by a fascinated 
	young girl
Lighting candles for the dead 40th anniversary of Hungarian Revolution
 

Scrambled Rice (Stan), Annotated

Small Self-portrait (Prototype for Anne’s vampire?)
Cave Wall Late 20th Century (The Internet of things)
The Lighter Side of War
Demon and Cherubs at Play
“A painter paints to unload himself of feeling and visions”
Said Picasso
Two Hell’s Angels Taking Christ Down from the Cross While
	Drinking Wine in California with a Mule
Ascending Oranges
Narcissus in Heat
Head du Jour (Christ in a crock pot)
Busts (like death masks) (Not tits, busts)
Visitation of the Wisemen (The Nightmare)
Hitler Denies to Six Million Jews the Watermelon of Life
Adam and Eve Riding from Eden on Beasts
Public Dance (Like early David Lynch experimental films)
Guerilla Penetrated by Projectile Clown (see the Lighter Side of War)
Woman with a Wooden Indian
Satyrs Dancing
Dogs fighting at Paris Carnival
Day 1 ( of the Autocracy with out of focus TV screen shot 
	of Big Brother)
Rooster Mistakenly Sent in as a Linebacker
“You’re Innocent When You Dream” (after Tom Waits)
Nine Attempts to Paint Hitler as a Baby (“after trying unsuccessfully 
	eight times; you get only rats, then the baby”)
Rembrandt Departing by Limo
De Kooning refusing an honorary academic degree said, “I can’t 
	see myself as an academic. I think of myself as a song and 
	dance man”
Don’t Believe Everything You Read (printed in Bold on a canvas
	titled “Recline Nude.” There is no nude figure)

 

Mary Woronov

Self-describes as “a rat in the sewer of popular culture”
(she’s) the sweet and sour chicken on our cosmic mine
(An) Exploding Plastic Inevitable
Mary Bland 
Eating Raoul
Dancing Mary
Singing Mary
Mary Wonderly
Mary Woronov
Rock ‘n Roll High School
Death Race 2000
Fur Coat in Florida
Life Studies Without Models
First the paintings, then the stories
Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills
Secrets of the Chambermaid
Where Sleeping Dogs Lie
Blue and Brittle
Boy Dares Car to Run Over His Girlfriend
Hollywood Hangover
Uneasy Rider
One Night Stands
Red Death
Anxiety, Grief, Depression, Pain
At first, the picnic looked like an after-lunch massacre
Giant black cinders floated from the sky onto California snow
(A) Wake for the Fallen Angels

 
Hawkes’ Hell’s Angels, The Cannibal

“The night was so black that the red lights from the hatches
	of his tanks would have reflected against the clouds
	and brought death.”
“It was years since the people had stopped talking.”
“The child ran all the faster when the light went out in the
	butcher shop.”
“…jewels of tin cans littered the indefinable yards without
	lawns or bushes.”
“She wondered how the strange wild cannibals on tropical
	islands or on the dark continent, running with white 
	bones in their hair, in the shimmering sand, could
	bear, in only their feathers, this terrible sun.”
“Behind them one of the chickens began to scream and a
	speck appeared in the sky.”
“The policeman’s call faded into nonsense.”
“He was in the presence of the white lady of the other world.”
“The dark angel stood in the doorway cutting off the candlelight
	from the other world.”
“How peculiar, the wooden man and fleshless God, they kept
	company.”
“In Winter Death steals through the doorway sending for both
	young and old and plays for them in his court of law.”
“At last, the rats and the monkeys died.”
“Their bodies were strewn over the main grounds, and since 
	they froze, they looked life like, tangled together in 
	the snow.”
“It was difficult keeping the patients from the heaps of small black
	corpses.”


 
On Assignment for Joseph Pulitzer, Nellie Bly’s, 
	Ten Days in a Madhouse

“I felt a quixotic desire to help them by sympathy and presence.”
“Could I pass a week in the insane ward at Blackwell’s Island?
	(later renamed Welfare Island) I could, I would, I did.”
“How will you get me out?”
“The more sanely I talked and acted the crazier I was thought
	to be.”
“The woman had a hideous nightmare. She had been dreaming
	of me.” 
“It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little 
	sympathy and kindness there are in the world.”
“People on charity should not expect anything and should nit 
	complain.”
“The eating was one of the most horrible things.”
“Choking and beating patients”
“It’s a crime to lock people up and freeze them.”
“She would talk into steam heaters or get up on a chair and talk
	out the window.”
“You don’t need to expect any kindness here, for you won’t get it.”
“Promenading with lunatics.”
“How will you get me out?”
“My face was the brightest he had ever seen in a lunatic.”