From Fake Fine Art to Trashpo Parody: Malibu Barbie's Awesome Adventure (Escondido, California, USA)

[De Villo Sloan]

Mail-art by IUOMA member Fake Fine Art (Escondido, California, USA)

March 18, 2014 - Some know her as Fake Fine Art. Some know her as Indiana Rogers. Some know her as Mean Sheena. Then you have Malibu Barbie and Crocodile Barbie.

Regardless of what you call her, it is undeniable this multiple identity mail-artist is becoming a network presence. Not since the heyday of similar characters such as Karen Eliot and janet janet has identification been more confusing, if it matters. Since her conversion to DKult, Fake Fine Art has become a Trashpo darling as well.

Unfortunately, I am an object of Fake Fine Art's ridicule and contempt (see above) in her sometimes confused campaign to stamp out misogyny and males in general. First, here is the reverse side of the envelope:

This is an example of Fake Fine Art's work depicting DKult that has created such a sensation among the Trashpoets. In the lower right is a burning dumpster. Also included in the mailing is a sort of scrapbook documenting the golden moments of her character evolution over the last several weeks:

Here is an artifact from her Malibu Barbie phase she sent me. This also seems to be a projection of her Mean Sheena identity with the Naughty List Bitches.

Next, Fake Fine Art announced she had married Vizma Bruns (Australia). (Vizma might possibly be a member of the Naughty List Bitches.) Fake Fine Art's documentation is all the more challenging because a split-personality autobiography is confusing. Here she became Crocodile Barbie.

Blaster Al Ackerman is alleged to have used 18 different identities in the mail-art network. The difference between Blaster and Fake Fine Art is that the Blaster was able to compartmentalize and keep the identities separate and even secret. Fake Fine Art's identities are exploding and melting into each other simultaneously across the net and snail mail like multiple eggs hurled at an empty wall. Stick around long enough, and you might witness an implosion.

For a brief moment, Fake Fine Art's D-Konversion seemed permanent. Only now, she has released these Trashpo parodies that are currently circulating:

And this:

This is D-Klassic work; I cannot deny it. But is Trashpo parody truly Trashpo? I will address this issue in my forthcoming essay "Toward A Conceptual Trashpo." Is Fake Fine Art moving Trashpo in a new direction? Or is this work an early symptom of a dissatisfaction with DKult and an inevitable break?

For me, watching Fake Fine Art's evolution is similar to witnessing an unfolding train wreck. I can only guess that the best is still yet to come.

[De Villo Sloan]

Here are some NLB stamps for anyone to use.

[vizma bruns]

Great artist stamp! Tell Veronica!!

Vixen was seriously hoping that Cardboard wasn't gay. When she found out that he wasn't, she passed out again.

[De Villo Sloan]

Make sure to check out NLB's latest release:

[De Villo Sloan]

Yes, I have heard from Veronica Rage as well. Unlike some NLB members, she has lots of fans.

http://iuoma-network.ning.com/profiles/blogs/veronica-rage-has-rese...

[DKeys]

I've heard rumors of a post by Veronica Rage? is it the drugs? did I hallucinate this? please let me know where it is as I have become convinced she has run off with Nadine Wendell Mojica on some kind of Thelma and Louise tour of America

[De Villo Sloan]

OK, I have managed to compose myself. Thx DK & FFA for the comments.

[DKeys]

I look at what is being called Trashpo Parody as anti-art  , high- art parody if anything.

DVS--monkey experiment has been a HUGE hit with nearly 7 views worldwide! downloads are off the charts..in fact more elusive than the Malaysian plane, at least I'm assuming since it crashed our site soon after it was posted.  And while it was a coincidence, I even gave you a monkey in diapers.  It was a selfless act on the part of Carboard Lamborghini to take the attention off of yourself.  And in doing so, Vixen thought he might be gay.  It is not only Fan Club Presibitches that can feel unappreciated.  CL has hung up the diapers.

[De Villo Sloan]

Thx for the comment FFA.

I do appreciate the relative DeKorum of the discussion. The issue of trash parody has been mostly resolved, IMHO.

[De Villo Sloan]

DK, thanks for providing the definitions. Yes, there is a good deal of material in the All Things Trashpo group explaining it. Jim Leftwich posted on FB: "I thought Trashpo parody was impossible." I am taking Jim's position. Trashpo is a parody of itself. You cannot parody Trashpo because self-parody was built into the structure from the start. This solves the theoretical quagmire for me. I am willing to concede FFA's Trashpop is Trashpo. She never should have called it parody. It reveals her bourgeois mentality.

Vizma, as far as I know I am the President of the North American NLB Fan Club, and the abuse I take from those animals is hardly worth it. I am again dealing w/pics of women pointing large guns in my face and waving underwear. In addition to this, the insulting remarks about Jackson Pollock and Jack Kerouac have started. The only thing I know about musical monkeys is NLB was supposed to have released this amazing song called "Monkey Experiment." There is a 20 second video of gibberish on Youtube that is supposed to be this amazing song.

[vizma bruns]

I thought you were one of the Naughty List Bitches, De Villo!? That saxophone playing gorilla thing, didn't it start there? Well, I digress... this is a great haul of fine fake art, very fun, I wish you two had a back and forth mail art blog.