mr. slick comes to town

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LAURA CERWINSKECOMES TO TOWN


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by Laura Cerwinske

Mr. Slick comes to town... and all thegirls are jazzed.

So begins Laura Cewinskes comic talein words and pictures.

Unamused by the consequent dither over Mr. Slicks arrival, The EmpressFulfaggotra unleashes a force ofsuperheroes, artists, and unsuspectingangels. A surreal frolic to restore Her Grace 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. Slick and dream on

MR. SLICK COMES TO TOWNCopyright 2011 by Laura Cerwinske

Art work may not be duplicated without permission.

Purchase of original Laura Cerwinske artwork does NOT transfer any rights of Copyright.

Copyright remains with Laura Cerwinske.

Published byBlue Hair Lady Publishing

Miami, Florida

All Rights Reserved by Laura Cerwinske

Best viewing FULL SCREENBest mode SLIDESHOW

Painting of Mami Wata, 2010 by Judith HochGraphic Design by www.ellepricken.com 5


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are jazzed.and allthe girls

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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

appearance fromSuperman.


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TheBlue Hair Ladyand

The Man inthe TangerineSuit hold hands,

Ooooooo.

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while Pollyspills

the beans...22 23


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Mr. Slickrevises thescript

Wouldntyou know,

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...andheads for

NiagaraFalls.

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Mistakenly,he lands inSalem where

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he 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.38 39


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Explodingheads...

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and...43


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headsglowing44 45


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with

sure strength,

and women

kneelingartists,

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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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isFulfaggotras

message.Love61


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Take yourrolic

seriously.

Thepromise

is this big.

Mami Watasays so.

Halleleulah!

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Louis,the best of all drawingmodels,knew...

and itshowed.

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Love andfrolicare thereward.

Theyre

everywhere,especially...

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ABOUT THE MYTHOLOGY& CHARACTERS

Mr. Slick lives 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 embracewas 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 other deities 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 deitieswho 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 centuriesearly modern Europes population 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 for shame. Patriarchy run rampant has resulted in the cavalier desecration 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 book design. Like Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven,she also supported herself as an artists model. Manyof the Lauras images in this book, including Mr. Slick and 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 (copyright page, pp. 28-29, 49, 63) is anartist and anthropologist who lives half each year on theSouth Island of New Zealand where she paints, prac-tices and teaches yoga, and is reforesting forty acres ofgardens and trees. The inspirations for her various seriesinclude the spontaneous, natural icons of the

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cinema studies at the University of Tampa. His lms havebeen 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 theonly 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 thehigh style and high jinks of the imagery of 1940s and

fties resort life. Her clothing and ne art collages andassemblages have been exhibited throughout the U.S.Learn more about Dina Knapp at www.dinaknapp.com

Ciro Quintana (pp. 36-37, 62) was the founder ofHavanas radical Grupo Pure in the 1980s and,

THE ARTISTSCONTINUEDearly Neolithic in southeastern Europe, the woodblock prints made by artists attending witch executions in earlymodern Britain and Europe, the music of Verdi, the ab-solute soul presence of the Maori woman, Aroha Wainui,and images from her inner life of dream and contempla-tion. Learn more about Judith Hoch atwww.judithhoch.com

Barry Zaid (pp. 15, 27) is an illustrator and graphicdesigner who lives in Miami Beach. His illustrious career has 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 for animation, and he founded and headed the animationdepartment at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University before the introduction of computers into the

eld. Each three-to ve minute lm required thousandsof hand-drawn images. He was an associate professor at NYU and a professor of animation production and

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later, creator of a neo-pop aesthetic combining theappropriation of comic book heroes and neo-historicalrevisionism. His paintings, drawings, and work in other media 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 creditsthe 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 in uences. He has been exhibitedin Europe and the U.S. and has lived in Miami since 1993.Learn more about Ruben Torres Llorcas work at www.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 gurativeabstractions of humanity seeped in pristine isolation.

ABOUT THEAUTHOR/PUBLISHERAs the author of more than 20 books 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 developedRadical 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 Fleischer Studios 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]

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CREDITS&ATTRIBUTIONSCover photograph: from the series Madison 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 series Miracle

Mile Windows , photograph by Laura Cerwinske

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

Page 17 Bugs and the Lady , photograph byLaura Cerwinske

Pages 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 artist Judith Hoch with Laura Cerwinske in front of

the paintin, 1991 for whichLaura Cerwinske modeled

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 Richard Protovin on his KneesPage 48 Baroness ElsaPage 49 Half of Everything is Ours by Judith Hoch, 1990 for which

Laura Cerwinske modeledPage 50 Henriequita and Angel , Painting and 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 Mami Wata: I Love You This Much , 2010, by Judith HochPage 65 detail of a life size drawing by Laura Cerwinske,

conte crayon and pastel on paper,1995Page 67 Always in My Dreams , photograph by Laura

Cerwinske, from the Window Displays series

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