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LAURA CERWINSKECOMES TO TOWN


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by Laura Cerwinske

Mr. Slick comes to town... and all the

girls are jazzed.

So begins Laura Cewinskes comic talein words and pictures.

Unamused by the consequent ditherover Mr. Slicks arrival, The EmpressFulfaggotra unleashes a force ofsuperheroes, artists, and unsuspectingangels. A surreal frolic to restore HerGrace ensues, and Love, naturally, isthe reward.

MR. SLICK COMES TO TOWN

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With Mr. Slick Comes to Town

Laura Cerwinskeannounces the launch of

Laura would love to createbooks and art for you, too.

Heres a comic taste

to whet your imagination.

Turn the page to meet Mr. Slickand dream on

Copyright 2011 by Laura Cerwinske

Art work may not be duplicated without permission.

Purchase of original Laura Cerwinske artworkdoes NOT transfer any rights of Copyright.

Copyright remains with Laura Cerwinske.

ISBN T/K

Published by Blue Hair Lady PublishingMiami, Florida

All Rights Reserved by Laura Cerwinske

GraphicDesignbyEllePricken|www.ellepricken.comBest viewing FULL SCREEN

Best mode SLIDESHOW

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Mr. Slickcomes to

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are jazzed.

and all

the girls8 9


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EvenLady

Liberty

lifts asalute.

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is notamused.

The

EmpressFulfaggotra,however,

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Still,Barry Zaidand

Celia Cruz

throw opentheir arms,

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while Popeyecomes along,followed by

Bugs andWonderWoman.

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The Giant

Green Babythen throwsa steriodalrage which

extracts an

appearancefromSuperman.


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The

Blue Hair Lady

and

The Man withthe Tangerine

suit hold hands,

Ooooooo.

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while Pollyspills

the beans...22 23


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Mr. Slickhas otherideas,

Wouldntyou know,

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...and

heads forNiagara

Falls.26 27


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Mistakenly,he lands inSalem where

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the artistDina Knapphas sewn

a pictureof her

dream.30


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TheMonas

watch...32 33


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as did theneighbors.

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tooktypical

revenge.

But then,the Patriarch,aghast,

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Still, thegirls find it

a hoot.

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Explodingheads...

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and...

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headsglowing44 45


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with

sure strength,

and women

kneelingartists,

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and exultantdames

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and

Little RedWritingHood,

includingthe Incaangel

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agree.and all thegirlfriends...

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TheEmpresssnew clothes

are aboutto appear.

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Cast youreyesupward.

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and hear theGraces...

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Take yourfrolicseriously.

Thepromise

is this big.

Mami Watasays so.

Halleleulah!

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Louis,the best ofall drawingmodels,knew...

and itshowed.

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Love andfrolic

are thereward.

Theyre

everywhere,especially...

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ABOUT THE MYTHOLOGY &CHARACTERS

Mr. Slicklives for excitement. Once he gets the girlsjazzed, he can get away with just about anything. Heis expert at the fond gaze, the warm palm, the ready,grin. A master of distraction, Mr. Slick thrills to games,prizing his ease at arousing in others whatever desire of

heart or loins best serves him. He reserves his feasts ofvengeance for those who most wish to love him. He isinsatiable.

The Goddess Fulfaggotra represents the incarnationof Beauty, Creativity, Sensuality, the Extravagant, theVoluptuous, and the Ridiculous. Her mythology, createdby Laura Cerwinske, is described as follows:

In a heavenly collision of constellations, Creations twomost powerful deities Imagination and Passion weresent rocking from their celestial cradles into the sparklingweb of Divinity. Imagination grew to embody Beauty,Creativity and Sensuality; Passion ruled the Extravagant,the Voluptuous, and the Ridiculous. Out of their embrace

was born a Daughter whom they called Fulfaggotra. Thename, of Fauxmaic origin, derived from Fulfaggotore,meaning to Celebrate, to Decorate, to Animate.

Imagination and Passion lavished upon Fulfaggotraa life of wisdom and exuberance. They guided her inaccordance with the constellations; taught her the loreand law of the forests; and provided gardensfor cultivation of her daydreams. They welcomed

companions of all ages and tongues, and theyencouraged her in good deeds and prayer. They tutoredher in the healing, creative, and martial arts. They trainedher as a hunter, a warrior, an artist, and healer. Theytaught her nurture and benign rule.

In time, Fulfaggotra grew to be the most powerful deityin all the Heavens. Universally adored, She took loverson land and sea and populated every continent withher Earth-worshipping children. She cultivated civilityamong migratory creatures. She wove enchantment intothe rituals of life. Eventually, Fulfaggotras power cameto outweigh, overshadow, and outlast that of all otherdeities in OurStory.

Mami Wata is a plural noun that connotes the myriad,ancient water deities of Africa, whose priesthoods arematriarchal. Mami Wata once inspired not only Africancultures but also the ancient Anatolian, Middle Eastern,Greek, and Roman traditions. Mami Wata deities areoften half mermaid, half reptile or sh, primordial deities

who were the bringers of justice, and who establishedcomplex theological, moral, social, political, economicand cultural foundations. She says, I hold the mysteriesof your life. All will be well. Judiths series Stop theExecutions (page 29) depicts images from the centuriesof witch trials that decimated much of the worldspopulation of wise women, midwives, and herbalists.

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THE MYTHOLOGY &CHARACTERS

CONTINUED

The Patriarchs represent the beliefs and actions ofthe rational, linear mind as it is invested in hierarchy,

acquisition, domination, accumulation, measurement,consumption, complexity, compartmentalization,punishment, and vengeance. The domination ofpatriarchy over Fulfaggotry and its excessive applicationover the last eight millennium has robbed humanity ofcreative and sexual power, turning fundamental aspectsof humanness that once were celebrated into cause forshame. Patriarchy run rampant has resulted in the cavalierdesecration of the earth. In Albert Einsteins words, Theintuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is afaithful servant. We have created a society that honors theservant and has forgotten the gift.

ABOUT THE ARTISTSLaura Cerwinske makes art and books. Her continuousbody of work, produced throughout the lastforty years, includes painting, sculpture, drawing,collage, assemblage, altar-making, print and digitalphotography, photo styling, art directing, and bookdesign. Like Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven,she also supported herself as an artists model. Manyof the Lauras images in this book, including Mr. Slickand The Empress Fulfaggotra, were taken as part of aphotograph series of window displays (perpetually inprogress). Mr. Slick, one of the quintessential Mad Men,if ever there was, was actually photographed on NewYork Citys Madison Avenue. The Girls (pages 8-9, 34),The Ladies Liberty (pp 10-11), Superman (p. 19) BugsBunny and Wonder Woman (p 17), Betty Boop, and theGlowing Heads (pp 44 45), were photographed in storewindows on Fifth Avenue. The Empress Fulfaggotra (p.13) continues to appear in a window on Miracle Milein Coral Gables. Lauras gallery of altars, icons, andartifacts comprising The Art of Fulfaggotry can be seenat www.fulfaggotry.com. Learn more about Laura atwww.lauracerwinske.com/pages/art

Judith Hoch (pp. 28-29, 63) is an artist and anthropolo-gist who lives half each year on the South Island of NewZealand where she paints, practices and teaches yoga,and cultivates and is reforesting forty acres of gardensand trees. The inspirations for her various series includethe spontaneous, natural icons of the early Neolithic

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been shown as part of the New Directors/New Filmsseries at the Museum of Modern Art in New York Cityand the Best Short Films series at the Seattle InternationalFilm Festival, as well as at festivals in Moscow, Cannesand Venice. Richard was also an acclaimed abstractpainter. He died in 1991, beloved for his generosity andstupendous sense of the Ridiculous.

Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (p. 48) was anearly 20th artist known as much for her personal costumeand performance as for her collages and assemblagesfashioned from found materials. Usually impoverished,she supported herself throughout much of her career asan artists model. She was a friend of Marcel Duchampand many of the New York Dada crowd. A publishedpoet, she was lauded as, the rst American dada the

only one living anywhere who dresses dada, loves dada,lives dada.

Dina Knapp (p. 31) is a textile artist and maker ofwearable art. Her playful, colorful work draws on the

high style and high jinks of the imagery of 1940s andfties resort life. Her clothing and ne art collages and

assemblages have been exhibited throughout the U.S.Learn more about Dina Knapp atwww.dinaknapp.com

Ciro Quintana (pp. 36-37, 62) was the founder ofHavanas radical Grupo Pure in the 1980s and,later, creator of a neo-pop aesthetic combining the

THE ARTISTS CONTINUEDin southeastern Europe, the woodblock prints madeby artists attending witch executions in early modernBritain and Europe, the music of Verdi, the absolutesoul presence of the Maori woman, Aroha Wainui, andimages from her inner life of dream and contemplation.Learn more about Judith Hoch at www.judithhoch.com

Barry Zaid (pp. 15, 27) is an illustrator and graphicdesigner who lives in Miami Beach. His illustrious careerhas included the design of the original CelestialSeasonings packaging, book covers and book designsfor numerous publishers worldwide, posters, greetingcards, type designs, and all manner of other graphicproducts. Before he could read, he loved the shapes ofthe letters on the packages in his fathers grocery store.When in his teens, he produced signs...combining lettersand images... for neighborhood stores. Posters producedduring his student days led to his lifelong career. Learnmore about Barry Zaid at www.barryzaid.com

Richard Protovin (p. 47) was a painter and lmmaker.

His obsessive love of drawing led him to a passion foranimation, and he founded and headed the animationdepartment at the Tisch School of the Arts at New YorkUniversity before the introduction of computers into theeld. Each three-to ve minute lm required thousands

of hand-drawn images. He was an associate professorat NYU and a professor of animation production andcinema studies at the University of Tampa. His lms have

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appropriation of comic book heroes and neo-historicalrevisionism. His paintings, drawings, and work in othermedia have been exhibited throughout the world. Since1992 he has Lived and worked in Miami, Barcelona, NewYork, and Milan. Learn more about Ciro Quintana athttp://fneartamerica.com/profles/ciro-quintana.html

Ruben Torres Llorca (p. 46) was born and educatedin Havana, where he was part of an internationallyrecognized group of artists who challenged thecountrys artistic scenario. A lover of ction, he credits

the Afro-Cuban tradition for teaching hiim the useof the emblem, the construction of the altar, thedramatic importance of space, the preference ofthree-dimensional representation and fragmentation.His preference for simple materials derives from Mexicancraftsmanship, and he considers sociology andarchitecture as major inuences. He has been exhibited

in Europe and the U.S. and has lived in Miami since 1993.Learn more about Ruben Torres Llorcas work atwww.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-

interview-ruben-torresllorca-13547

David Chieppo(pp. 22-23) is a cultural portraitist whowas born in the U.S., but has resided in Switzerland since1998. His luscious paintings could be called gurative

abstractions of humanity seeped in pristine isolation.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR/PUBLISHERAs the author of more than 20books on art,

architecture, and design and as a practicing artist,Laura Cerwinske is devout in her love for Creativity.In fact, her passion is so nourishing, she wishes shecould eat it. She considers Creativty to be a spiritualendeavor. Combining this understanding with her longexperience as a writer, Laura developed

Radical Writing, an online course that teaches thetechnique and rewards of uninhibited self-expression.

Laura grew up not only during the heyday of theoriginal movie and television cartoons, but as thedaughter of one of the animators for the FleischerStudios which produced, among other classicanimations, Popeye and Betty Boop. Accordingly,Laura views life with a comic eye, and her Goddesscreation the Empress Fulfaggotra reigns largelythrough a sense of the Ridiculous. Laura has createdan assembly of altars, icons, and artifacts used in theworship of her goddess creation and known asThe Art of Fulfagottry.

Lauras publishing company, Blue Hair Lady Publishing,is devoted to books and art that reveal the joyfulintensity of Creative power. The publications areexcursions through the secrets of transformation,weaving memoir and mythology, metaphysics and art,quantum thought and healing.

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Laura would love to:Develop books for you.Curate a program on Creativity for your organization.Create curricula for your art program.Coach you and/or your collective.Cultivate your visionary thinking.Contact her at: [email protected]

Enjoy Lauras blog, Lauraputsout...words,pictures,ideas,where she writes about and illustrates topics rangingfrom dogs and neighbors to art and architecture to tolove and duplicity to her Affair with the Chair.

Lauras monthly eblast includes her images andrecommendations for lms, videos, books, artists, and

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CREDITS & ATTRIBUTIONSCover photograph: from the seriesMadison Avenue Windows byLaura Cerwinske, 2010

Page 7 Mr. Slick, photograph by Laura CerwinskePages 8-9 The Girls are Jazzed, photographs by

Laura CerwinskePages 10-11 Ladies Liberty, photographs by Laura CerwinskePage 13 The Empress Fulfaggotra from the seriesMiracle

Mile Windows, photograph by Laura Cerwinske

Page 15 Barry at the Bass, photograph by Laura CerwinskePage 16 Popeye is Everywhere, photograph by

Laura CerwinskePage 17 Bugs and the Lady, photograph by

Laura CerwinskePages 18-19 The Big Boys, photographs by Laura CerwinskePages 22-23 detail of a painting by David ChieppoPage 24 Mr. Slicks Dog, photograph by Laura CerwinskePages 26-27 The Artist Barry Zaid and His Boys, photograph by

Laura CerwinskePages 28-29 The artists Judith Hoch and Laura Cerwinske at the

exhibition of Hochs seriesAccursed Charms,Cape Cod, MA, 1990

Page 30 Portrait of the Artist Dina Knapp byLaura Cerwinske

Page 31 Dina Knapp at the Bass Museum, Miami, Florida

2006, painting and photograph by Laura CerwinskePages 32-33 The Monas, photograph by Laura CerwinskePage 34 Harold and Shirley, photograph by Laura

CerwinskePage 35 Shirley, Now and Then, portrait by Laura

CerwinskePages 36-37 details of El Patio de Mi Casa es Particular, a

painting by Ciro Quintana, 2010Page 38 The Girls are Jazzed, photograph by Laura

Cerwinske, from the Window Displays series

Pages 40-41 Jeromes Window, photograph by Laura Cerwinske,from the Window Displays series

Page 42 Andy on Houston, photograph by Laura CerwinskePages 43-45 Glowing Heads, photograph by Laura Cerwinske,

from the Window Displays seriesPage 46 detail of Sin Noticias de la Habana by

Ruben Torres Llorca, 2010Page 47 Mike Bonner at his school, Mikes Flying Service.

Photograph courtesy of Dana BonnerPage 48 Portrait of the artist Baroness Elsa

von Freytag-Loringhoven, Photograph of thePhotograph at Art Basel by Laura Cerwinske, 2008

Page 49 Richard Protovin on his KneesPage 50 Henriequita and Angel,

photograph by Laura CerwinskePage 51 Peg at Books and Books,

photograph by Laura CerwinskePages 52-53 The Girlfriends at Age 90, photograph

by Laura CerwinskePages 54- 55 The Girls and Mr. Slick, photographs by Laura

Cerwinske, from the Window Displays seriesPage 57 Eyes Upward, photograph by Laura Cerwinske,

from the Window Displays seriesPage 58-59 The Graces, photograph by Laura CerwinskePages 60 Watch and Frolic, photographs by Laura CerwinskePage 61 Painting by Laura Cerwinske of a 19th century

Capodimonte porcelain jar from Bonnin AshleyAntiques, Miami, Florida

Page 62 detail of El Patio de Mi Casa es Particular,a painting by Ciro Quintana, 2010

Page 63 detail from the painting Mami Wata by Judith Hoch,2009

Page 65 detail of a life size drawing by Laura Cerwinske,conte crayon and pastel on paper,1995

Page 67 Always in My Dreams, photograph by LauraCerwinske, from the Window Displays series

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