{"id":918,"date":"2009-08-14T20:01:46","date_gmt":"2009-08-15T03:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/08\/message_in_a_bottle\/"},"modified":"2009-08-14T20:01:46","modified_gmt":"2009-08-15T03:01:46","slug":"message_in_a_bottle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/08\/message_in_a_bottle.html","title":{"rendered":"Message in a bottle: Ted Bundy brick to blue dresses, baseball &#038; homunculus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"eliashansenbottle.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/eliashansenbottle.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;\" width=\"250\" height=\"353\" \/><\/span>Joe Piecuch, Elias Hansen, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/03\/the-handyman-poetics-of-eli-ha.html\">review<\/a> of <i>Truths We Forgot To Lie About:<\/i><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>They treated Tacoma like a science experiment, taking core samples of the place distilled into gruesome forms of theoretically drinkable beverages. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In all manner of glass test tubes (blown by Hansen), they mixed an alcohol base with Western red cedar, brick fragments from Ted Bundy&#8217;s childhood home and soil from Port Madison; coyote blood, beard hair, beeswax and butterfly wings; blackberries, club moss from the Hoh rain forest and hydrogen cyanide; soil from Lewis and Clark&#8217;s Cape Disappointment camp site, concrete from the Boeing plant in Everett flavored with hobo urine, and brick chips from Francis Farmer&#8217;s childhood home with paint flecks from Curt Cobain&#8217;s final abode on Lake Washington.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>Hansen is now represented by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawrimoreproject.com\/lp\/Lawrimore_Project.html\">Lawrimore Project<\/a>. He and is brother, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.standardoslo.no\/v1\/o.tuazon.swo.php\">Oscar Tuazon<\/a>, had shows last fall at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattleartmuseum.org\/\">Seattle Art Museum<\/a> (video with curator Michael Darling <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattleartmuseum.org\/exhibit\/interactives\/samnext\/samnext_01.htm\">here<\/a>) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.howardhouse.net\/\">Howard House<\/a>. (Review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattlepi.com\/visualart\/360452_visual25.html\">here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ryansarahmurphy.com\/pages.php?content=gallery.php&amp;navGallID=9\">Ryan Sarah Murphy<\/a> &#8211; Blue Dress in a Bottle<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ryansarahmurphydre.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/ryansarahmurphydre.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" width=\"350\" height=\"496\" \/><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gregkucera.com\/daws.htm\">Jack Daws<\/a>, <i>Louisville Slugger<\/i><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"jackdawsslugger.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/jackdawsslugger.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" width=\"451\" height=\"273\" \/><\/span><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=O5gaIXI2Mn4\">It was 20 years ago today, Sargent Pepper taught the band to play<\/a>:<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laurengrossman.com\/\">Lauren Grossman<\/a>, <i>Homunculus<\/i> , from 1989. One, <i>The Ancestor<\/i>. Series shot, left to right, <i>The Ancestor, The Hermaphrodite, The Mother, The Critic, The Poet<\/i>, and <i>The Idiot<\/i>. (At <a href=\"http:\/\/www.howardhouse.net\/\">Howard House<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Still great, after all these years.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"laurengrossfetus1.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/laurengrossfetus1.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" width=\"450\" height=\"561\" \/><\/span><br \/><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"laurengrossfetus2.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/laurengrossfetus2.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" width=\"450\" height=\"197\" \/><\/span><br \/><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"laurengrossfetus3.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/laurengrossfetus3.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" width=\"451\" height=\"263\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Piecuch, Elias Hansen, from review of Truths We Forgot To Lie About: They treated Tacoma like a science experiment, taking core samples of the place distilled into gruesome forms of theoretically drinkable beverages. In all manner of glass test tubes (blown by Hansen), they mixed an alcohol base with Western red cedar, brick fragments [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-918","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}