Saturday, April 19, 2025

Here's my elevator rap. It's what I'd tell you about myself very quickly, if I want to impress upon you that I'm a pop artist.

My medium is book covers. So, if I have a book about McDonald's, and I come up with some new pop art on the subject, I can and do exchange an old cover for a new cover. Some of the books that I own are unique - there isn't much out there that is exactly the same. But when I make a good one, I hope it lasts for years even if nobody cares that much for the stories within.

Lately I've been drawn into the national politics, which has rendered my writing somewhat pointless. I was a big fan of the USA and now all I can say is, boycott the heck out of us. Don't let us have any of those rare earths, we'll just use it to invade Greenland. I take pictures of the demos and hope they get bigger. A nation that has gone fascist is something one doesn't want to take in silence.

If I make some of these covers, what should I put in the books?

My pleasing, humorous look at the US in better times just makes me uncomfortable; I don't even want to market it. But what do I really want? To warn the world of the rising fascism? to mock it?

The pop art will keep coming, I hope. I'll work on what to put in the books.