THE ARTIST GENERAL--"A CABINET-LEVEL SELF-APPOINTMENT FOR LIFE"
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Photos by Michael Sloan / September 2001
When creative impulse is belittled or abused,
the longshot shortchanged,
the dark horse whitewashed, the carrot ephemeral
but the stick enduring,
whoya gonna call?
That's right. The Artist General.
Artist General Statement
Thumb forms 'L', middle digit 'V', ensigning protocol brasspass greeting "NeverSayDie"/"SayLaVee"
The A.G. is the Chief Executive Officer of New Millennial Culture and the Guardian of National Inner Childhood through all the Arts & Thensum...here shown holding one-of-a-kind instrument, the "Bass Bowl" (an amplified 'Celtibetan' fantasia--rubber bass strings over hand-turned Tibetan singing bowls served on a Bodran with reverb)
Hat-hole for ponytail holds hat in heat of cultural battle, etc.
A.G. listening to "A Scary Home Companion" on ZENpr (wack-with-a-carrot-colored-stick Radio)
