“Ring Found” and “A Glass Eye”

two original gel monoprints on found paper, with typewriter text

each 8.5 x 9.25 inches

image patterns in French sky blue, fawn brown and emerald green with darker line and type marks

on found paper — pages torn from a discarded book about the French Impressionists

the writing is original and my own …

I took out an advertisement in the classifieds.
It read:

Ring found. Public beach at Withering Place.
Real diamond? Describe it and the circumstances
of losing it. Box 1457.

I had found no ring, of course. But I was bored,
and wanted some mail, which was so hard to come by
in those days.

and

Something gleamed beneath the dresser. Lamont
searched in tiny patterns with his flashlight.
It was a glass eye. Look at you, Lamont said.
As he squatted down to retrieve it, two fingers
already forming a pinch, Lamont could feel but
not hear the various cracks and pops in his knees
and back. He cursed while his chunky cop shoes
twisted and squeaked beneath him. And while he
could feel the sudden cold, the appalling wrongness
of the shadow which suddenly loomed at his shoulder,
he did not hear its approach. After the second hammer
blow, he heard nothing at all.

each print lightly tacked to foam board

packaged for gift giving in a clear cellophane sleeve

meant for framing but can sit on a mantle, shelf, or corner of a cubicle as well

two artworks in conversation

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