memorial day

Bill Dugan's obsession with old typewriters is one I share.

Here, Memorial Day weekend means the opening of season (guest season here on the compound), but veterans have a very different association. Artist friend Bill Dugan is headed from Missouri to Chicago for the opening of a group show at the National Veteran's Art Museum in Chicago for their show "Surrealism and War." You can see a dead bird valentine he made on the second slide of the NVAM website. I don't have any pix of his other, rather terrifying war work using hanging rat skeletons and mummies and roadkill prints and combat gear. He obsesses about other subjects as well— wedding dresses, cows, roosters—but there is no denying that the death stuff is powerful.