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LAURA CERWINSKE
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Laura would love to create books and art for you, too. Heres a comic taste to wet your imagination. Turn the page to meet Mr. Slick and dream on
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Mr. Slick comes to town... and all the girls are jazzed.
So begins Laura Cewinskes comic tale in words and pictures. Unamused by the consequent dither of Mr. Slicks arrival, The Empress Fulfaggotra unleashes a force of superheroes, artists, and unsuspecting angels. A surreal frolic to restore Her Grace ensues, and Love, naturally, is the reward.
Mr. Slick
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comes to town
are jazzed.
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lifts a salute.
The Empress
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Fulfaggotra,
however,
is not amused.
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Ooooooo.
The Blue Hair Lady and The Man with the Tangerine suit hold hands,
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the Patriarch,
Exploding heads...
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and...
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glowing
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heads
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and women
kneeling artists
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and exultant
dames
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agree.
Love
is Fulfaggotras message.
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Halleleulah!
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and it showed.
Love and frolic are the answer. After all, you can always find them...
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ABOUT THE
ARTISTS
music of Verdi, the absolute soul presence of the Maori woman, Aroha Wainui, and images from her inner life of dream and contemplation. Learn more about Judith Hoch at www.judithhoch.com Barry Zaid is an illustrator and graphic designer who lives in Miami Beach. His illustrious career has included the design of the original Celestial Seasonings packaging, book covers and book designs for numerous publishers worldwide, posters, greeting cards, type designs, and all manner of other graphic products. Before he could read, he loved the shapes of the letters on the packages in his fathers grocery store. When in his teens, he produced signs...combining letters and images... for neighborhood stores. Posters produced during his student days led to his lifelong career. Learn more about Barry Zaid at www.barryzaid.com Richard Protovin was a painter and filmmaker. His obsessive love of drawing led him into a passion for animation, and he founded the New York University School of Animation in the 1980s, before the use of computers. He was also an acclaimed abstract painter. Richard, who died in 1991, was beloved for his generosity and stupendous sense of the Ridiculous. Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven was an early 20th artist known as much for her personal costume and performance as for her collages and assemblages fash
Laura Cerwinske makes art and books. Her continuous body of work, produced throughout the last forty years, includes painting, sculpture, drawing, collage, assemblage, print and digital photography, photo styling, art directing, and book design. Like Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, she also supported herself as an artists model. Many of the Lauras images in this book, including Mr. Slick and The Empress Fulfaggotra, were taken as part of a photograph series of window displays (perpetually in progress). Mr. Slick, a Mad Man, if ever there was one), was actually photographed on New York Citys Madison Avenue. The Girls (pages 3-4, 34), The Ladies Liberty, ( pages ), Superheroes (pages 13-14) Bugs Bunny and Wonder Woman, Betty Boop, and the Glowing Heads (pages 38 40), were photographed in store windows on Fifth Avenue. The Empress Fulfaggotra continues to appear in a window on Miracle Mile in Coral Gables, Florida. Judith Hoch is an artist and anthropologist who lives half each year on the South Island of New Zealand where she paints, practices and teaches yoga, and cultivates and is reforesting forty acres of gardens and trees. The inspirations for her various series include the spontaneous, natural icons of the early Neolithic in southeastern Europe, the woodblock prints made by artists attending witch executions in early modern Britain and Europe, the
ABOUT THE
CHARACTERS
Mr. Slick lives for excitement. Once he gets the girls jazzed, he can get away with just about anything. He is expert at the fond gaze, the warm palm, the ready, grin. A master of distraction, Mr. Slick thrills to games, prizing his ease at arousing in others whatever desire of heart or loins best serves him. He reserves his feasts of vengeance for those who most wish to love him. He is insatiable. The Goddess Fulfaggotra (page 4) represents the incarnation of Beauty, Creativity, Sensuality, the Extravagant, the Voluptuous, and the Ridiculous. Her mythology, created by Laura Cerwinske, is described as follows: In a heavenly collision of constellations, Creations two most powerful deities Imagination and Passion were sent rocking from their celestial cradles into the sparkling web of Divinity. Imagination grew to embody Beauty, Creativity and Sensuality; Passion ruled the Extravagant, the Voluptuous, and the Ridiculous. Out of their embrace was born a Daughter whom they called Fulfaggotra. The name, of Fauxmaic origin, derived from Fulfaggotore, meaning to Celebrate, to Decorate, to Animate. Imagination and Passion lavished upon Fulfaggotra a life of wisdom and exuberance. They guided her in accordance with the constellations; taught her the lore and law of the forests; and provided gardens
Laura Cerwinske is devout in her love for Creativity. In fact, her passion is so nourishing, she wishes she could eat it. She considers Creativty to be a spiritual endeavor. Combining this understanding with her long experience as a writer, Laura developed Radical Writing, an online course that teaches the technique and rewards of uninhibited self-expression. Laura grew up not only during the heyday of the original movie and television cartoons, but as the daughter of one of the animators for the Fleischer Studios which produced, among other classic animations, Popeye and Betty Boop. Accordingly, Laura views life with a comic eye, and her Goddess creation the Empress Fulfaggotra reigns largely through a sense of the Ridiculous. Laura has created an assembly of altars, icons, and artifacts used in the worship of her goddess creation and known as The Art of Fulfagottry. Lauras publishing company, Blue Hair Lady Publishing, is devoted to books and art that reveal the joyful intensity of Creative power. The publications are excursions through the secrets of transformation, weaving memoir and mythology, metaphysics and art, quantum thought and healing.
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CREDITS
& ATTRIBUTIONS
Pages 40-41 Jeromes Window, photograph by Laura Cerwinske, from the Window Displays series Page 42 Andy on Houston, photograph by Laura Cerwinske Pages 43-45 Glowing Heads, photograph by Laura Cerwinske, from the Window Displays series Page 46 detail of Sin Noticias de la Habana by Ruben Torres Llorca, 2010 Page 47 Mike Bonner at his school, Mikes Flying Service. Photograph courtesy of Dana Bonner Page 48 Portrait of the artist Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, Photograph of the Photograph at Art Basel by Laura Cerwinske, 2008 Page 49 Richard Protovin on his Knees Page 50 Henriequita and Angel, photograph by Laura Cerwinske Page 51 Peg at Books and Books, photograph by Laura Cerwinske Pages 52-53 The Girlfriends at Age 90, photograph by Laura Cerwinske Pages 54- 55 The Girls and Mr. Slick, photographs by Laura Cerwinske, from the Window Displays series Page 57 Eyes Upward, photograph by Laura Cerwinske, from the Window Displays series Page 58-59 The Graces, photograph by Laura Cerwinske Pages 60-61 Watch and Frolic, photographs by Laura Cerwinske Page 62 detail of El Patio de Mi Casa es Particular, a painting by Ciro Quintana, 2010 Page 63 detail from the painting Mami Wata by Judith Hoch, 2009 Page 65 detail of a life size drawing by Laura Cerwinske, conte crayon and pastel on paper,1995 Page 67 Always in My Dreams, photograph by Laura Cerwinske, from the Window Displays series
Cover photograph: from the series Madison Avenue Windows by Laura Cerwinske, 2010 Page 7 Pages 8-9 Pages 10-11 Page 13 Page 15 Page 16 Page 17 Pages 18-19 Pages 22-23 Page 24 Pages 26-27 Pages 28-29 Page 30 Page 31 Pages 32-33 Page 34 Page 35 Pages 36-37 Page 38 Mr. Slick, photograph by Laura Cerwinske The Girls are Jazzed, photographs by Laura Cerwinske Ladies Liberty, photographs by Laura Cerwinske The Empress Fulfaggotra from the series Miracle Mile Windows, photograph by Laura Cerwinske Barry at the Bass, photograph by Laura Cerwinske Popeye is Everywhere, photograph by Laura Cerwinske Bugs and the Lady, photograph by Laura Cerwinske The Big Boys, photographs by Laura Cerwinske detail of a painting by David Chieppo Mr. Slicks Dog, photograph by Laura Cerwinske The Artist Barry Zaid and His Boys, photograph by Laura Cerwinske The artists Judith Hoch and Laura Cerwinske at the exhibition of Hochs series Accursed Charms, Cape Cod, MA, 1990 Portrait of the Artist Dina Knapp by Laura Cerwinske Dina Knapp at the Bass Museum, Miami, Florida 2006, painting and photograph by Laura Cerwinske The Monas, photograph by Laura Cerwinske Harold and Shirley, photograph by Laura Cerwinske Shirley, Now and Then, portrait by Laura Cerwinske details of El Patio de Mi Casa es Particular, a painting by Ciro Quintana, 2010 The Girls are Jazzed, photograph by Laura Cerwinske, from the Window Displays series
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