In 1972, the small, late, great Boston-based independent press Telegraph published a small book containing a selection from Warhol superstar Brigid Polk's collection of ink prints she made of celebrities and her friends' scars with accompanying explanations of the wounds by those who'd been scarred. The book's been out of print and impossible to see for ages, but I have a copy in my LA apartment, and here are scans of some of the entries in her book.Peter Fonda
Patti Smith, Guy Dill
Unknown, unknown
Brigid Polk, Jonas Mekas
Michel Auder, Viva
Richard Burton, Andy Warhol
Rene Ricard, unknown
John Giorno
Gerard Malanga
Genevieve Waite
Brice Marden, unknown
Allen Ginsberg, Dirk Bogarde
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4 comments:
One things clear. Besides being accident prone these people were also atrocious hand writers.
Dennis,
I love this day...I was aware of "Scars" but of course had never seen it. Thank god for your scanning marathon. I talked to an old friend in Chicago a couple of weeks ago, and he brought it up. Weird and wonderful that it was posted so quickly after that conversation...I'm going to send him the link...he'll be as pleased as I am. Wasn't there a documentary made about Polk a few years back? Did you ever meet her?
If I don't talk to you before you leave, which seems likely, have as pleasant a flight as possible. Arcadia weirded me out (I am easily weirded out I guess)...but my ghosts are an active bunch when disturbed. Not bad mind you...just confusing (a symbolic sort of emptiness...with no memory of much beyond my father and mother and scattershot snapshots...hence the confusion...of course I remember you...don't I?). That place doesn't hold much for me I'm afraid. Still spending the day together was really wonderful and sans temporal emptiness. I'm so pleased you got to see Jules and our place...maybe next time dinner or something.
This smokey sky is quite weird as well, no? Sort of like the fifth of July writ large (isn't there a Terry Reid song in there somewhere?) . But it makes for beautiful sunsets...blood-red. Thanks again for the Polk.
love always, mark
Oh yea...how did you end up with one of her trip books anyway? Did Telegraph reprint all of them or just this one? I am right aren't I...this is one of her trip books from the 60's yes? whatever...xxoo
Dennis, afew questions
are you playing the phantom hourglass on your DS yet?
are you familiar with chris morris?
if not I suggest you look up his show Jam on you tube, highly unsettling stuff, not to mention, hilarious.
this isn't a question, the other day i went to nightamres fear factory in niagara falls, I thought of you. The scariest part was when a car suddenly came at you out of the darkness, has that ever happened to you in a haunted house?
i guess that was a question.
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