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So... I was asked to create a postcard somehow exploring my identity for an exhibition. I had a picture of me from Halloween 1998 all Nosferatu-ized. And of course Chris Lee from Horror of Dracula (1958), one of my favorite visuals of all time. The shark image is actually a postcard I found at Store 24 in Providence. I couldn't resist attaching it as a hinge, making the postcard a fold-out... and concealing the UTTER HORROR within. Oh yeah, and you can't tell in the picture but the whole mess is staple-gunned to a hunk of two-by-four with ample woodglue sloshed on for good measure.
As it turned out, the person who asked for the postcard... well, he didn't want it once he saw it. So I took it back. Which was fine with me, since I'd grown quite fond of it-- and rightly so, since this piece wrapped together three images representing some stuff that's always been near and dear to me.
"Las Bocas Sangrientas" means "The Bloody Mouths"
in Spanish... thanks to my oldest buddy Paul for the translation.
I knew what I wanted to say and he knew how to say it.