{"id":76081,"date":"2026-08-12T10:58:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T14:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=76081"},"modified":"2026-08-12T10:58:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T14:58:01","slug":"memory-pictures-coming-in-an-old-friend-is-gone-too-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2026\/08\/memory-pictures-coming-in-an-old-friend-is-gone-too-long.html","title":{"rendered":"<font size=\"+1\"><em>Memory Pictures Coming In<\/em><\/font> <br><strong>An Old Friend Is Gone Too Long<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/FINGERS-NOM300dpimerged420.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"420\" height=\"555\" data-attachment-id=\"15179\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?attachment_id=15179\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/FINGERS-NOM300dpimerged420.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"420,555\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"&amp;#8216;Fingers&amp;#8217; \u00a9 Norman O. Mustill [1967]\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/FINGERS-NOM300dpimerged420.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/FINGERS-NOM300dpimerged420.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15179\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.7567849143095275;width:285px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/FINGERS-NOM300dpimerged420.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/FINGERS-NOM300dpimerged420-227x300.jpg 227w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em><strong>Collage \u00a9 1967 by Norman O. Mustill<\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Norman Ogue Mustil, my old friend, bailed out in 2013, when, as he put it, he&#8217;d had &#8220;a good run&#8221; and was past &#8220;my sell-by date.&#8221; Mustill was an extreme dissenter. Nothing pleased him more than reaming out the human race. His collages stopped you dead with their vicious satire, like the writings of William S. Burroughs. And for technical precision Max Ernst didn&#8217;t do better. But Mustill is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2021\/10\/mustill-artworks-newly-archived-at-emory-university.html\">little known<\/a>, his work unseen, \u00a0his praise unsung. This reading of deformed sonnets is dedicated to him.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed alignleft is-type-rich is-provider-soundcloud wp-block-embed-soundcloud wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"DEFORMED SONNETS FOR MY OLD FRIEND by JanHerman\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F567886329&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=750&#038;maxwidth=500&#038;secret_token=s-JaIIi\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em><strong>In memory of N.O.M.<\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Norman Ogue Mustill was an extreme dissenter. Nothing pleased him more than reaming out the human race. His collages stopped you dead with their vicious satire, like the writings of William S. Burroughs. And for technical precision Max Ernst didn&#8217;t do better.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8392,"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":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18,4,20,23,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-literature","category-main","category-media","category-news","category-political-culture","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Heres-lookin-at-you-self-portrait-from-TWINPAK-e1374340753917.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-jN7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76081"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76157,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76081\/revisions\/76157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}