OF FLAKES & FAKES: Richard Canard on the Crisis in Cerealism + Letter to KDJ on the D-KULT (Illinois, Florida, New York, USA)

[De Villo Sloan]

Mail-art by IUOMA member Richard Canard (Carbondale, Illusion, USA)

 

November 15, 2011 - If Richard Canard's wisdom could be placed between a book's covers, might we call it Poor Richard's Almanac? Ask Benjamin Franklin. I will dispense with the weak Tom Clark imitation now.

 

Still Poor Richard remains: Mr. Canard must look back with nostalgia to a time when personal correspondence was not fair game to post in the ether for any wandering eye to find. However, I want to blog this mail-art he sent me because who else, when breakfast food and its packaging is serialized in art, can make sense of it all? Here is another gem to ponder:

 

 

Along with all his other accomplishments, I am afraid Richard Canard will be remembered in the annals of mail-art (accidentally and as the result of the confusion of others) for inventing Cerealism - in the same way Benjamin Franklin is remembered for "inventing" electricity, although I suspect he is best known today for having invented money. Attributing Cerealism to Ray Johnson is just not garnering enough support or evidence. I particularly enjoy Richard Canard's wordplay that here shows a brilliant connection between Trashpo and Cerealism:

 

Many thanks, as ever, to Richard Canard and his seemingly endless "sensibilities of tolerance."

 

The Crisis in Cerealism and its stepsister Trashpo is the proliferation of fakes, from phony shopping lists to (incredibly) outsourced garbage. A most egregious example is D-Koder rings. I have written a letter to KDJ (Florida, USA) protesting the situation and will share it with you:

 

 

 

page 2:

 

So, with many thanks to Richard, Carnard that seems to be situation of Cerealism today.

 

MAIL-ART PSYCHIC

 

Doris gets her oats

 

A neo-flapper, Scotty

 

Dancing lessons in Diana

 

Ray likes the bicycle seat: "Bill me later."

 

You are living proof of cat pajama jojoba

 

Phyllis Wheatley

 

Which describes your relationship needs?

(a) affliction & attention

(b) no common interests

(c) rinse & wash

 

Nolaroids

 

Fruit loops - think outside the box

 

Andy says: "Yes, we have no bananas, Wolfgang. Lou, can you Read?"

 

Cats have nine lives. I end up with nine fingers.

 

[Marie Wintzer]

Wot? When I'm doing all I can to spread MinXus all over the world! And anyway, you can't expel me, I got all the stamps already. Ha!

[De Villo Sloan]

Marie, you are expelled! From what, I don't know - and him - he's going down, This is - he's a gangster - and it's a hijacking. MinXus is ruined. 

[Marie Wintzer]

Yes, he changed MinXus to Min(esota)FluX(US) ;-)) will there be a riot? Let's see. Dw, that was so visionary!!!

[De Villo Sloan]

it is exactly as i saw in my vision! exactly

[De Villo Sloan]

Marie! I'm back and I'm going to have a seizure! You let him hijack MinXus? MIN(nesota Flu)XUS? Is nothing sacred? This is a total, complete, outrage.

http://grigori-nojohnrays.blogspot.com/

[De Villo Sloan]

Then I won't take credit for shredpo. I was trying to keep a glossary of poetics for all this but fell behind. That looks exactly like - we call it Pad Thai - Thai noodles? As opposed to Giggy Wanton-in - a larger kind of limp noodle. 

[Marie Wintzer]

I think Dw might be wrong on that one? Unless he can dig out some DVS shredpo evidence.

[De Villo Sloan]

Dw tells me I invented shredpo, honestly don't remember. At this point, I feel like meat shredpo aka sausage.

 

We have a very serious situation of "Aesthe" vs anti-art. There is no middle ground. Do I denounce Trashpo? Phase 2 of lumpy gravy is stalled. 

[Marie Wintzer]

A bit like Echo and the Bunnymen, yes :-))

You see, this is a trashpo blog, and who is here? Cheryl, me, and Dw. The Aesthe people. Well, by Aesthe people I mean Cheryl and I.

[De Villo Sloan]

iggy wanton-in won the trashpo-litzer 4 his condom-nation