MEMORY
"Road Rage"
30" x 22"
water soluble pencil and crayon
2003
"She was my roommate in the dorm at college. One time we dragged home a toilet that was abandoned outside of a sorority house, signed it R. Mutt and proudly placed it in the middle of our piles of dirty clothes, unfinished art, and musical instruments.
Now she calls me from the road. He breaks into the house leaving the toilet unflushed just to show that he can. The children have been shuttled from relatives to friends, crossing state borders.. Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, as she tries to monitor the little ones diabetes from the road, tries to keep her job, tries to keep the lawyers moving. His girlfriend called her once, an ally only when blood stained the walls.
I see her in my dreams at night. I am searching through dark caves for her, dreaming a protector for her who will come riding in like Duchamp on a shiny white steed."