Faulkner & Eliot

My holiday postage: 22-cent stamps issued 24 and 25 years ago, 
like tiny book covers adorning every envelope.  Affixed 
while listening to this history of the post office.

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a momentary interlude of politics and soul

I. INTRODUCTION  By way of 115 years of red-and-green(ish) design

• Above, poster and typeface design by Anthony Mercer
• Below, a detail of Louis Sullivan's stenciled design (1893-94) for the walls of the Chicago Stock Exchange Trading Room, now held at the Art Institute of Chicago
• and a 1966 poster for three nights of Otis Redding live in San Francisco.

II. A LAMENT

. . . Americans affluent and struggling, young and old, Democrat and Republican look at the struggle over the debt ceiling with a sickened feeling, like gawking at a crash on the highway.  

      They're appalled by politicians who seem to view compromise as defeat, amazed that the people they elected to lead do not seem to be up to the task and frustrated that the powers in Washington don't understand that Americans want one thing above all else from their government: security.¹

III.  INDEED & APROPOS

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                                            ¹  Marc Fisher, 2011, "In Rockville: Anger at the government tinged with angst about the future," 
                                           The Washington Post (Sunday, July 31), page A1.

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golden fleece

Detail of a postcard on its way across the country to my friend Mike. The tapestry image is a reproduction of Pae White's Sea Beast, on display at Power Plant in Toronto until January.  Pulled from a beautifully close-up ad in the October 2010 Artforum.

'M' cut from another, long-ago Artforum: an advertisement for a Jack Pierson show in Barcelona, 2006-07, saved for its typographical interest.

A Sea Beast detail lives up in my page header, too.  The original is 290 x 660 cm, cotton and polyester.

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