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A BOOK ABOUT DEATH : ARTISTS CONTRIBUTE 500 POST CARDS EACH TO CREATE AN UNBOUND BOOK ABOUT DEATH. EXHIBITION AT THE EMILY HARVEY FOUNDATION GALLERY IN NEW YORK CITY. OPENING: THURSDAY 10 SEPTEMBER 2009. EXHIBITION: 10 - 22 SEPTEMBER 2009. TUES - SAT 1 PM - 7PM.
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A BOOK ABOUT DEATH : ARTISTS CONTRIBUTE 500 POST CARDS EACH TO CREATE AN UNBOUND BOOK ABOUT DEATH. AN HOMAGE TO RAY JOHNSON, A CELEBRATION OF EMILY HARVEY, A GLOBAL EXPLORATION OF DEATH.
NO LIMIT TO THE NUMBER OF ARTISTS CONTRIBUTING. CDs, DVDs & OBJECTS ACCEPTED - SEND 500. DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 5!
EXHIBITION AT THE EMILY HARVEY FOUNDATION GALLERY IN NEW YORK CITY. OPENING: THURSDAY 10 SEPTEMBER 2009. EXHIBITION: 10 - 22 SEPTEMBER 2009. OPENING : 7:30 - 11 PM.
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The back story: Elvis Presley died on my 21st birthday. I remember, because we were visiting my relatives in Vermont and my Aunt was just beside herself - hysterical, really. It was quite a spectacle with her moaning and sobbing, "Oh Elvis, Elvis!" I really had no interest in Elvis Presley, he was more of an annoyance to me since his untimely death completely ruined my celebration that year. (although my opinion of him has evolved since then) In any event, his death is always a dimension of my birthday and I thought that I'd work with that coincidence for this project. In the process, I (re)discovered that Elvis was actually a twin, but that his twin brother was stillborn. That became a more curious and poignant fact for me and the card, thus, became a reliquary for Jessie Garon Presley. -bg
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