Hello everyone, Sal asked me to write about some of the pictures in this collection and I was very excited that he did so. A condition of doing so was that he delete his original foreword, in which he described in gruesome detail his ennui, his dissatisfaction with this work, his dire financial situation, his slowly worsening physical condition, his fear of mortality, his shameful living circumsta
Hello everyone, Sal asked me to write about some of the pictures in this collection and I was very excited that he did so. A condition of doing so was that he delete his original foreword, in which he described in gruesome detail his ennui, his dissatisfaction with this work, his dire financial situation, his slowly worsening physical condition, his fear of mortality, his shameful living circumsta
Hello everyone, Sal asked me to write about some of the pictures in this collection and I was very excited that he did so. A condition of doing so was that he delete his original foreword, in which he described in gruesome detail his ennui, his dissatisfaction with this work, his dire financial situation, his slowly worsening physical condition, his fear of mortality, his shameful living circumstances and his sexual inadequacy; dukkha all round. I thought he'd be better off to start an anonymous tumblr if he wants to be a little emo dork about his work and his life, and, moreover, I suggested that this embarrassing attempt to have 'your cake and eat it too' would be at once apparent to all attending this event and reading this text. I said to him “no-one wants to read Roy Keane's inner monologue, sap-boy, you're a good artist, with a lot of career prospects, and you have ridden your way around town many's a time, no-one's gonna buy your little sob story”. But they often do because Sal has charming ways. Hopefully by alluding to it indirectly here I can soften the effect.