EFAC ZINE #2

The photocopying shop is open until 9, but xeroxing the new zine cannot be rushed. But it IS DONE and ready to copy...tomorrow!

We are going to have some sort of availability of print zines and art-boxed zine/photo sets for the non-Playa Del Fuego attendees as well. Watch this space!

EFAC will be at the spring Playa Del Fuego - no big art installation this time, but we will be at Camp Tasty, making art & giving away the new zine. If we ever finish the new zine.

1. Google thinks they aren't evil, but they still kind of are.

2. We are doing things with: Books. Water. Wax. Rust. (Rusty metal. And taking a saw to the book. These aspects are optional.)

Join us? We'll post any & all pics. Let's do some art.

Losing My Electrons

Today's art is by Filth. Filth's prior contributions to the Collective have included co-discovery of Hystricomorpha Philthocynia, early documentary photography of the Cabinet of Extinct Curiosities, and endless infusions of enthusiasm. He will answer your questions, read all your comments, and accept submissions of odd rusted metal objects via the EFAC home office. He is not currently a dandy.

LOSING MY ELECTRONS

Hair thins. Toenails yellow. Free radical damage accumulates. Blueberries may slow the process, but the direction of travel remains the same.

These photographs depict the routine oxidation of metal, paint and other finishes. I couldn't resist manipulating the images (more or less, as the case may be), playing with light and color, to bring out the natural... Why isn't there a word that explicitly means both [flips coin, chaos loses] patterned and chaotic?

Everything decays, even our dreams. I was born to be a dandy, but look how I turned out. What choice is there, but to accept the inevitable, and allow events to wash over us as metal accepts flame?

[If your connection can take it, click on any image to go to the huge, intensely detailed original.]

(c) Filth, 02013

We seem to have lain fallow over the darkest part of winter. What's been growing, down under the crust?

things to do, somehow

No google results found for "existential hang glider" (We will start working on it.)

Photographs of the Cabinet in situ...

Many thanks to the Collective's lovely Art Minion, Cynthia, for these photos!

Cabinet of Extinct Curiosities - full set on Flickr