Makings in the Year 2025

I’ve always tallied up the amount of mail that comes in and goes out. No idea why I do this? 

The 2024 Tally

 

Here is the pattern. I get mail out of the post office box, open it up, put it in a wicker basket under my TV, and then take it upstairs to count when the basket fills up. I note each piece from every mail artist. At the end of the year I put together a tally of what I’ve received. I also do this for what I send out. Normally I send out a giant pile of stuff at one time and not to any particular person. Some of the work could have been sitting for two weeks or two months, I make a lot so it tends to pile. I go to my address book and then go through the tally, focusing on the ones that show a mild imbalance of mail. I mail to them first. If I have something special to send out I’ll mail that to specific folks whenever I’m done with that piece. After putting the addresses on, I add the amount I sent to the overall total and at the end of the year I add it all up.

So…by this logic, I received 442 things and mailed 414. However, this isn’t correct.

The numbers aren’t right. While the received amount is probably on point, or at least close to it, the amount I’ve sent in 2024 is way off. Most weeks I send a random piece to this specific person, a reply, a letter, something bigger that doesn’t always get counted. If there’s not an original collage in the bunch I don’t always count that either. I feel like I’m cheating people if there’s not something original in an envelope. But none of that is the biggest discrepancy, friends and family are. I don’t count the mail art (collages, cards either original or “professionally printed”) that I send to friends and family. I don’t count those because I never get anything back from them. In a calendar year I get maybe four postcards from folks I personally know, and then maybe ten Christmas cards at the end of the year. Not worth keeping a tally. No problem, I don’t expect anything in return, it’s just what I do.

However, the amount I send to friends and family can be a lot. For some folks I sent ten to fifteen cards / mailings / pieces of garbage a year. That amount could be sent to as many as thirty or forty people. That’s a lot of mail! Anyway, basically I’m saying that I send out a lot of stuff in a year and it’s almost impossible to keep it all straight. No one needs this information, I just like collecting it. By the way, I keep two address books, one for mail-artists and one for friends and family.

In thinking back on this past year of mail-art (my focus for this post…I guess) I’m struck by the amount. I send too much. I really should pull back a bit. I know it’s not a typical new year’s resolution to do less, but I feel like I should. Not make less, just send less. So much of what I receive is underwhelming that I shouldn’t feel guilty if I’m not responding quickly and in kind. I’ll get to you at some point, but I’m tired of trying to keep up because of my own ridiculously imposed rules.

Some of the ways I’m going to limit my post is to step up my little library drop offs. Whenever the local thrift stores have sales on frames, I can get them for cheaper than what a stamp costs. I can put the collage in a frame, drop it off to a little library, and walk away. It’s almost the exact feeling as putting a stamp on something and then dropping it in the mail, but I tend to get weird responses from the libraries, almost exclusively bad. Provoking a rare little library response is a lot more rewording than the overall ambivalence that comes from mailing something. People get so mad at something they could break or toss in the trash. I’m giving you a frame, think about it that way.

And more…more rambling goals.

I need to thin out my materials. Being a thrift store junkie is great for finding random pieces, but often you use two or three things but initially buy fifty. You end up with forty-eight things you can’t use. So, for the coming year I’m going to consistently make collage packets for kids and leave them wherever I can. Asking if adults want a bunch of weird paper online never works, no one ever wants them.

I will continue to not listen to people with suggestions about how to monetize my work.

I will continue to not pursue putting my creations on the wall of a “gallery” or public space.

I will continue to assume no one cares about any of this, and make what I want.

I want to do a series of record covers. Not record covers for bands, although I’m more than open to that idea, but recreations of record covers. This might be cuter than anything. I might use Miles as my model. You know, have his head peeking out on a recreation of Fugazi’s Steady Diet of Nothing? Been thinking about doing this for some time but have never made a proper attempt. Low fi and shitty for sure, mainly for the music heads. I don’t normally do cute but why not?

Before my dad died, I had the idea to collect a bunch of my weirdo writing into a big book. I wanted the book to be something of stature. I wanted it to take up some space. No one cares about a digital file they’ll never open. The initial idea was to collect a bunch of my writing over the past 20 years, mostly shorter pieces. No real organization to the thing just a book of weirdo observations, travel writing, and lists. When my dad died this went out the window and I focused on the book (is it a zine, not sure) about him. That took a lot of time to put together, as well as money. I got a few dollars back from that project, but very little compared to how much it cost to print and then mail. Although this wasn’t great, I was initially bothered by losing a few hundred dollars on a project. It wasn’t the end of the world to lose the money because I had it. My cheap ass was worried. No one else is going to publish it or ask me to do it, so I might as well. Next week I’m going to start in on it.

In a similar fashion, (it’s always money) I need to be more active in sending out assemblages to mail-art friends. I need to send them to folks that might appreciate them even if it costs me a whole eight dollars. I need to break the pattern of thinking that volume is the best method.  At least doing this will break the monotony of continuous manila envelopes I usually send. Not sure which mail-artists would be interested in a sign that has the word “wiener” on it.

And then there’s the one resolution that is going to be the most challenging. In the coming year, I need to change up the way I make paper collages. The process came about by accident, like most of the things I end up making. I had all of this sticker paper, mostly rejects from businesses laying around. It only made sense to place bits of cut paper to the sticky paper. When I started doing this, I completely moved away from the tape transfer method, something I played around with for years.

When I started making paper collages I found a lane pretty quickly. I was able to come up with something I found acceptable early on. When I found that I could do something with it, I forced myself to keep going. I forced myself to do the same thing over and over again for as long as I could. I knew that working with things in this way would produce different results over time. Now, a few years into playing around with things in this way, I’ve hit a wall. Although I get something I find truly great every now and again, (maybe ten percent of what I make) I’m mostly making the same thing over and over again. I have the main image, mostly of a person, and then squares and rectangles around it. Sometimes, often, I have a word to give context to the main person in question. This needs to change.

In 2025 I plan on breaking out some collage books to get more ideas. I need to work in some paint, maybe some stencils, maybe some tape transfers, but something new. Maybe I’ll try and copy a lot of other collages that I enjoy. Work with cardboard? Not sure I want to get out an exacto-knife and start cutting, that technique is just too pretty for me. I admire people that go in that direction I just don’t have the patience.

If anything, I want to get rid of the line, the dreaded line. I have no idea how to do this or even if other people see the line, but I hate the line. I hate when I put a lot of pieces together and end up with a clear line of where they were taped to each other. It’s like an addition to a building where you can tell the new part from the old. When I see this I immediately hate whatever I’ve created simply because I can see where it came together. Instead of the piece looking like a collection of small bits to me, it looks like a sloppy house addition. I’ve tried cutting things on angle but that just makes it look an ariel-view of a well-planned city. 

Lines, lines, everywhere lines.

 

I will find a way to get rid of the line.

 

 

 

Cutting Circles into Rectangles

For the past two years I’ve forced myself to make collages in almost the same way. I did this to see how things might change over time, and although they have, this process has gotten a little stale. The process I’m referring to here, are my paper collages, mostly blocky, mostly leaning on old and rotting paper. Since I’ve done things in this way for so long, the process takes little to no time, or even thought. It’s almost an assembly line of image making. I have so many of them that I’ve stopped scanning all but the larger ones. It’s been fun, but I’ve been feeling the need to change for some months.

The main problem I had with them, is that they were almost exclusively rectangle. A rectangle is a fine and generous shape, but it wasn’t keeping my interest. In each collage was a face, maybe a short phrase or sentence, and a lot of squares and small rectangles positioned around. One in ten I thought was good, which isn’t a bad average. Since I’m a mail-artist, I mail everything instead of staring over, a process that can sometimes inhabit growth. I don’t look at a subpar image and say to myself, “Toss it,” instead I say “Mail it.” Considering what I often get from folks, I doubt anyone can tell the difference. I always send something original, something worked. Never do I send images torn from an old Cosmopolitan magazine. Sorry, I had to get in a slight there. Original and ok, instead of effortless and subpar, is fine by me.

I forced myself to change things up.

I wanted to start with my well-worn process, and then try and subvert it. I made the usual rectangles but then I cut into long pieces, short pieces, and into shapes from various tools sitting on my desk. With the pieces, I fixed them into shapes, using the negative space of the cardboard backing to make a more dynamic creation. While this is nothing new to the world of collage (who cares?) it was new to me. In my mind, I was thinking about those Hans Arp chance paintings, but you know…with things touching. What ended coming out looked like the 1920’s to me, someone like Braque, less dynamic but at least similar in tone.

I really leaned into “messing up” the pieces that I had put together. What I made was quite different than what I had been making, which excited me. I have a new path forward, at least for a little while. When I looked at what I had created I wasn’t indifferent like I so often am, I was excited about the possibilities of what I could add to future creations.

Below are four images. I posted the image first, and then commented on what I see in the creation. Nothing like a fun writing exercise to keep the image making mind moving.  

 

In this first image, I’m really focusing on the little one’s eye. The baby is off to the right, and not the center of the piece. It’s not the whole face. There’s two circles of varying sizes in the image. Off to the far left is a circle that has been removed, this is my favorite part. In this collage I can really see the scrapes across the old pieces of paper. Anything that looks old, looks like it is deteriorating is always more interesting to me than something that’s bright and shiny and new. For years, I’ve been trying to get this effect in my work. For this effect, I used something that looks like a toothbrush with metal bristles. No idea how it appeared on my desk or what it’s supposed to be used for. 

 

The second image is solid. It’s slightly larger than the first, 8x10. What I like about this is exactly what I started to hate about all of my old collages, this one has movement. The lines are going in every direction. There’s no real focus here, at least not in the overall image. What I see second are the original collages that I made and then cut up. There’s an old picture from Ebert Street in there. There’s an old Winston-Salem postmark at the top. In the center are a couple line drawings that I cut out of an antique children’s book from the 1950’s. Around that image are a bunch of pieces of heavy paper I spray-painted years ago and stuck in a disused corner of my garage. Technically, it’s taken years for this image to take shape. That big black circle, the one in the top right, came from a Life magazine in the 1960’s. There’s something about cheap paper that’s magical. High gloss magazines are almost impossible for me to work with. The paper is too heavy, the color is bound to the paper. I’m always looking for the look of a fading billboard on the side of a disused highway.

 

The red is the true winner in this one. It’s bright enough to give personality to the composition, but worked enough to have it blend in with everything else. This “blending” is something that “distressing” the images helps. If your collage comes from a lot of different sources and decades, everything from magazines, coloring books, books, then the paper and ink quality is going to be different. Sometimes these differences can cause a composition to clash. When you take a wire brush or metal device to clashing images, you bring them together through negation. For this one, the destruction is tying the collage together. There’s some blue crayon in there too.

 

The last one is my least favorite. It’s the most like what I’ve done for the past couple of years. What we have here is a rectangle collage made of parts from the same source. I assume this is from an old magazine considering how the scrapes cut into the paper. The man image is a man’s face, with a woman’s face beside of his, and then two sets of arms on the bottom of the collage. What makes this look different from what I normally create, are the two breaks. In the top right I have punched out a couple circles and replaced them with smaller ones. The middle replacement, has a lot of little pieces in it. From what I can tell, that middle circle has seven different pieces of paper in it. The size of the circle is a nickel. There’s some stuff there, some things to look at in a tiny space. There’s only two pieces of paper making up that top replacement circle, the main being some old construction paper. The square on the far left is covered in some blue ink I normally use for rubber stamps. I should have rubbed out more of that ink. It’s an ok image, nothing I’ll keep.

Moving forward, I’m going to continue working this process. Maybe I work this method until I get completely bored with it? I’m excited again.

All 70 Solo Magnet Shows

 Solo Magnet Shows List

This is the list of all the solo magnet shows. These are a collection of mini artworks with magnets attached to them and then stuck in random spots.

Solo Magnet Shows

1.     2760 Peter’s Creek Parkway Winston Salem North Carolina 27103 USA – Posted July 3^rd, 2023. Notes – The first show happened on the seat of a small bus station.

2.     34 Miller Street Winston Salem North Carolina 27104 USA – Posted July 4^th, 2023. Notes – I stuck the magnets to a napkin dispenser at a Starbuck’s inside of a Publix grocery store.

3.     211 East Third Street Winston Salem North Carolina 27101 USA – Posted July 6^th, 2023. Notes – Instead of paying for parking, I left some things in their parking lot.

4.     3500 Duncan Street Columbia South Carolina 29205 USA – Posted July 11^th, 2023. Notes – Miles and Misty went to play at the local splash pad, and I went walking around the small park looking for places to stick the magnets.

5.     1801 Canal Drive Carolina Beach North Carolina 28428 USA – Posted July 17^th, 2023. Notes – An hour after putting up the show, I watched a guy come change the trash bag, read the description of the art show, and then take the Richard Nixon magnet.

6.     415 S Hawthorne Rd. Winston-Salem North Carolina 27103 USA – Posted July 18^th, 2023. Notes – I was going to the grocery store to get food, so I thought I would stick some magnets to the base of a light post.

7.     2050 Chapel Hill Rd, Durham, North Carolina 27707 USA – Posted August 4^th, 2023. Notes - I stuck the magnets to a metal goat. I think it was a goat.

8.     4118 Spring Garden St, Greensboro, North Carolina 27407 USA – Posted August 4^th, 2023. Notes – The broadside of a green dumpster is a great place to have an art show.

9.     Riverside Dr, Asheville, North Carolina 28801 USA – Posted August 18^th, 2023. Curated By Rebecca Hutchinson Bodenheimer Notes – The first curated show down by the river in beautiful Asheville.

10.  5 Lawyers Row, Staunton, Virginia 24401 USA – Posted August 18^th, 2023. Curated by Diana Hale Notes – Diana said she put the magnets up on Friday, no one from the government would see them, and take them down.

11.  Route 21 Riverside Drive, Gurnee, Illinois 60031 USA- Posted August 23^rd, 2023. Curated by Bonniediva Detweiler Shorr – Notes – Bonniediva stuck the show to a metal thing jutting out of the ground.

12.  Davidson Street, Thomasville, North Carolina 27360 USA – Posted August 24^th, 2023. Notes – While putting up the show, I was mildly alarmed by the people hanging out in the nearby parking lot. I moved quickly. I left the magnets on the side of a broken-down short bus.

13.  1317 Winston Rd. Lexington, North Carolina 27295 USA – Posted August 25^th, 2023. Notes – For the past year, the city has been tearing down building after building on this road. The spot I put this magnet show on was once home to one of the most famous barbecue restaurants in Lexington.

14.  145 Elizabeth St. New York, New York 10012 USA – Posted August 27^th, 2023. Curated by Alexis Adams – Notes – The show was posted in a line and directly above an impressive lock.

15.  223 Grand Ave. South San Francisco, CA 94080 USA – Posted August 31^st, 2023. Curated by Eric Wheeling – Notes – Eric posted the magnet show at his job, inside a vegan restaurant.

16.  890 Main St. Boise, Idaho 83702 USA – Posted September 9^th, 2023. Curated by Alanna Meltzer-Holderfield – Notes – The colors of the magnets popped against a green newspaper rack.

17.  297 DCCC Rd. Thomasville, North Carolina 27360 USA – Posted September 14^th, 2023. – Notes – I stuck the magnets to my co-worker’s car. I put them in a position I thought he wouldn’t notice before he left work. He saw them.

18.  N.W. 25^th Marshall St. Porland, Oregon 97210 USA – Posted September 17^th, 2023. Curated by Marko Reid – Notes – Marko posted everything in a horizontal line. They were stuck to a metal painted deep red and directly above a green ivy.

19.  900 Pier View Drive. Idaho Falls, Idaho 83402 USA – Posted September 18^th, 2023. Curated by Alanna Meltzer-Holderfield – Notes – A quick google of the area produced an Albertson’s grocery store nearby. Idaho + Albertson’s = Built To Spill.

20.  941 N. Broadway St, Los Angeles, California 90012 USA – Posted September 23^rd, 2023. Curated by Leslie Caldera. – Notes – Leslie wrote, “I put it up today in Chinatown. Across the way from an awesome statue of Bruce Lee!”

21.  River Walk, Danville, Virginia 24543 USA – Posted October 3^rd, 2023. Curated by Debbie Foster – Notes – My mom put this one up when she and my dad went to the casino. She said she had a tough time finding something that was metal to stick it to.

22.  East Third Avenue, Lexington, North Carolina 27292 USA – Posted October 10^th, 2023. - Notes – I decided that this was the correct location since there was a No Trespassing sign directly beside the metal wall.

23.  Staton Island Ferry, 4 South Street, NY, NY 10004 USA – Posted October 12^th, 2023. Curated By Bibiana Padilla Maltos – Notes – Bibiana stuck the show to the side of the ferry and directly in front of attendees to this year’s Flux Fest.

24.  903 Randolph Street, Thomasville, North Carolina 27360 USA – Posted October 17^th, 2023. – Notes – And with this show I answered a question I’ve been thinking about, magnets will stick to blue USPS drop boxes.

25.  1700 North Park Street, Chicago, Illinois 60614 USA – Posted October 19^th, 2023 – Curated By LuEllen Joy Miller-Giera – Notes – More bowling alley’s need small magnets stuck to their blue side doors.

26.  South Broad Street, Winston- Salem, North Carolina 27101 USA – Posted October 20^th, 2023 – Notes – These weren’t technically “stuck” to a location, many were clipped to the small box filled with tiny artworks.          

27.  1125 Yadkinville Road, Mocksville, North Carolina, 27028 USA – Posted November 1^st 23– Notes – Since the building made ice, I thought it would be colder to the touch than a regular building. It was regular, building temperature.

28.  Mueller Orchard near the intersection of Manor Rd and Berkman Dr. Austin, Texas, USA – Posted November 4^th, 2023 – Curated By Carmen Kennedy – Notes it’s nice seeing the magnets in front of a throng of pretty red flowers.

29.  632 Trade Street, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 27101 USA – Posted November 14^th, 2023 - Notes – I stuck the show to my favorite bar in town. This coming Sunday they will celebrate their depraved 20^th anniversary.

30.  1701 South Ocean Blvd. North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, 29582 USA – Posted November 26^th, 2023 – Notes – People look at you strangely when you’re videoing a public bathroom door.

31.  30 Washington Street Central Falls RI 02863 USA – Posted December 3^rd, 2023 - Curated by Lin Collette – Notes – I think Lin put the show on her apartment front door.

32.  1607 Battleground Ave, Greensboro, NC 27408 USA – Posted December 6th, 2023 – Notes – On what might be my last visit to this bookstore (they’re moving to another town) I thought I’d honor them by leaving trash on their door.

33.  Tramkade 20-24 Hertogenbosch Netherlands – Posted December 17^th, 2023 – Curated by Jael Schnapper – Notes – This is the first international solo magnet show!

34.  Rua Porto Rico, 5, Santo André-SP, Brazil, CEP 09280-720 – Posted December 19^th, 2023 – Curated by Marcia Rosenberger – Notes – In the video, I liked when the women and up and took a piece of the magnet collage.

35.  Los Angeles CA USA – Posted December 21^st, 2023 – Curated by Neal Taylor – Notes – I sent Neal three small magnets with my rubber-stamped face on them and two phallic found objects. He positioned them appropriately and in front of a Jack in the Box.

36.  Maria de Guzman at Santa Engracia, Madrid Spain – Posted December 30^th, 2023 – Curated by Luellen Joy Miller-Giera – Notes – Magnet shows on doors are the best.

37.  Outside Garage Gallery Via Cardinale Branda Castiglione 2/1 - 20156 Milano Italy – Posted January 9^th, 2024 – Curated by Roberto Scala – Notes – The first show of the new year and the first show where someone put up everything, I mailed them…envelope, instructions, etc.

38.  Wilkomm Höft, Wolgastweg, 22880 Wedel Schulau, Germany – Posted January 10^th, 2024. – Curated by Rebekka Schmidt – Notes – Rebekka wrote, “It’s a place which is unique in the world and has existed since 1952. The magnet show is on a floating pier in the river Elbe which contains a ship welcome system. At the weekend bigger vessels from all over the world which pass (because they go to the port of Hamburg or come from there) are greeted by the loudspeaker. The speaker also gives information about the vessel like the length and weight of the ship and how many containers they can carry. Then the national anthem of the ship's home country is played. It's a tourist attraction.”

39.  Sunnyvale CA USA – Posted January 26^th, 2024 – Curated by Carmela Rizzuto – Notes – Traffic poles at intersections, are the best place for magnet shows.

40.  2501 Lewisville Clemmons Rd, Clemmons, North Carolina 27012 USA – Posted January 30^th, 2024 – Notes – For some reason their cart returns have flower boxes around them. I was waiting for Goodwill to open to I put one up.

41.  Salisbury Rd. Mocksville NC USA – Posted January 30^th, 2024 – Notes – I liked the colors on the front of the carwash. Since 1952. In the background was a nice collection of visually impressive junk. I had to wait for a guy to make change beside of me before I could put all the magnets up. He looked at me funny when he saw what I was doing.

42.  New York City NY USA – Posted February 3^rd, 2024 – Curated by Joel Cohen – Notes – I sent Joel two different shows. The images he emailed gave no context to where they were located. It was almost surreal.

43.  Stairwell P of City of Oakland Parking Deck CA USA – Posted February 6^th, 2024 – Curated by Joey Patrickt with Assistance by Leslie Caldera – Notes – My favorite show by far, mainly because of Leslie’s head peeking through the window of the parking deck door.

44.  7360 Navarre Parkway, Navarre FL USA – Posted February 7^th, 2024 – Curated by Terry Owenby – Notes – My first show at a major box chain, Walmart!

45.  77 Box Street, Brooklyn, NY 11222 – Posted February 10^th, 2024 – Notes – Stuck to a stop sign advertising the shooting schedule for the TV show Blue Bloods. Any place where Tom Selleck stood is a fine place for a magnet show.

46.  951 Silas Creek Pkwy, Winston-Salem, NC 27127 USA – Posted February 16^th, 2024 – Notes – I stuck this show to a blue post box simply because I drive by it every single day. I can see, without getting out of my car, if anyone has taken the magnets.

47.  Main St and 18th in Vancouver, Canada – Posted February 16^th, 2024 – Curated by Alison Keenan – Notes – Surprisingly, the magnets I sent were not put up for this show. Instead, and this is the first time this has ever happened, the curator replaced my magnets with their own creations. The only thing I sent her that she put up was the sign saying it was a magnet show.

48.  Popular Library "Colibrí" City: Paraná State: Entre Ríos Country: Argentina – Posted February 18th, 2024- Curated by Raul Albanece – Notes – Raul sent me video of various people coming up and ceremoniously taking pieces of the magnetic collage from the front door of a library. He introduced each person as they came up. All around were various hangers-on from a recent Mardi Gras celebration. It looked like everyone was having a delightful party at a library.

49.  Middle of the Strait of Georgia between Victoria and Vancouver, BC, Canada. – Posted February 19^th, 2024 – Curated by Allan Revich – Notes – I think this show was on a ferry?

50.  PRC (Independent Publishing Resource Center) 318 SE Main St., Suite 144 Portland, OR 97214-3303 USA - Posted February 18th, 2024 - Curated By Nonlocal Variable - Notes - In the email that Duane sent, he wrote "I don't do video." The picture is enough.

51.   Las Vegas Strip, Las Vegas Nevada USA – Posted March 6^th, 2024 – Curated by Dillon Lambert, Eli Lambert, and Debbie Foster – Notes – My mom took my nephews to Las Vegas. I’m pretty sure they were drunk when my nephew sent the video in the middle of the day.

52.  Canal towpath, on the side of the Letchworth Ave. Bridge (40.23852° N, 74.83094° W), Yardley, Pennsylvania USA – Posted March 31^st, 2024 – Curated by Ken B. Miller – Notes – It’s always nice to have artwork positioned by any body of water.

53.  W. Meeker St. & 2nd Ave S. 224 All Aglow Spa, Kent, Washington, USA – Posted March 31^st, 2024 - Curated by Bonnie Porter – Notes – Bonnie wrote, “It's a Pokémon Go Pokéstop called "Leaf Rack", by the way!”

54.  9283 Nolley Ct. Charlotte, North Carolina 28270 USA – Posted April 20^th, 2024 – Curated by Catherine Harrer Kanvik – Notes – Catherine had help putting up the show from her grandson. He’s in a couple of the pictures she sent.

55.  Tanglewood Park 4061 Clemmons Rd, Clemmons, North Carolina 27012 USA – Posted May 1^st, 2024 – Curated by Will Parham – Notes – Will called his magnet show “choo-choo,” I guess because he posted it on an infamous train inside the park.

56.  414 Deacon Blvd, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27105 USA – Posted May 3^rd, 2024 – Notes – I was almost positive a metal folding chair was magnetic.

57.  2050 Chapel Hill Rd, Durham, North Carolina 27707 USA – Posted May 7^th, 2024 – Notes – I posted it on a trailer with the aspirational words “People Over Profit” painted on them.

58.  207 West Sixth Street, Winston Salem, North Carolina 27107 USA – Posted May 13^th, 2024 – Notes – Nothing like a grouping of four unused weekly newspaper boxes to stick a magnet show to.

59.  Ft. Moore, Georgia USA – Posted May 15^th, 2024 – Curated by Jac Perk – Notes - Nothing like a magnet show in a broken-down children’s playground to really capitalize on creepiness.

60.  Fort Fisher, North Carolina, USA – Posted May 30^th, 2024 – Notes – When Miles and I got back from our two-hour hang, Misty commented on the amount of sand in his shoes.

61.  McLeod and First in Downtown Livermore, California USA – Posted June 3^rd, 2024 – Curated by LuEllen Joy Miller-Giera – Notes – LuEllen says in her video, “I sent you a picture of a sign for a rodeo.” Magnet shows near rodeos are always a good idea.

62.  E. Trade Street, Charlote North Carolina USA – Posted June 7^th, 2024 – Notes – The last time I was in this area things were open. This time the whole area was full of creepy characters waiting to get on a bus.

63.  1642 SC-160, Fort Mill, South Carolina USA – Posted June 9^th, 2024 – Notes – Finding myself with a few minutes at the gras station, cleaning out trash, and airing out the travel farts, I decided to put a magnet show on one of the pumps.

64.  Castellon, Spain – Posted June 11^th, 2024 – Curated by Juan Petry – Notes – The first international show where I think a language barrier created a little frustration. Only the second show to capture someone looking at the magnets.

65.  2372 St. Claude Avenue New Orleans, Louisiana 70117 – Posted June 13^th, 2024 – Curated by LuEllen Joy Miller-Giera – Notes – Seeing my little collage pieces on the side of a New Orleans café, made me calculate how long it’s been since I’ve walked that city.

66.  Calle del Doctor Fourquet- Between 30 and 32, Madrid, Spain – Posted June 16^th, 2024 – Curated by Laura Hortal – Notes - This is the only international show with full sized collages. I dropped this one off at Laura’s house and she took it all the way to Spain with her.

67.  2220 Thomasville Rd. Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27107 USA – Posted June 17^th, 2024 – Notes – I stuck this magnet show on the outside toilets…that’s right, outside toilets. As I kid, I remember this being standard practice, especially at gas stations, but thankfully this custom has slowly died out.

68.  204 W. Acadia Ave, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27127 USA – Posted June 24th, 2024 – Notes – I stuck the show to their mailbox. When I was putting them up, a couple of the magnets fell and broke.

69.  2701 University Pkwy, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27105 USA – Posted July 1^st, 2024 – Notes – I got one inside a toilet!

70.  Gaston Avenue, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27103 USA – Posted July 2^nd, 2024 – Notes – I put this one on the top of a little library. I felt like I was combing two projects, the magnet project and how I get rid of most of my framed collages and assemblage pieces.