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Vale John Barbour

The Look of Love (1987)
both sides

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On the back of the above, John has written :

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

BARBOUR '88 (April 1st 1988)

The date in parentheses is in green biro, the rest in pencil. Perhaps the more precise date was added as an AFTER THOUGHT or to draw attention to this being an April Fool's prank writ large, this THINK thing.

Later, there's a big paint version. Here it is in the John Barbour survey Work For Now at the AEAF in 2010.



click here to read Ken Bolton's
Some thinking about John Barbour’s Work For Now
(Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Nov 11—Dec 12, 2010)



Vale John de Silentio

IMMURED IN PACE
JOHN DE SILENTIO

Exhibition at 200 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy, May 1988.

click here to see and read John Barbour's accompanying text to this exhibition





Here's another such from then.

Around this time your correspondent was in the Melbourne Eye and Ear Hospital, the result of a fly-fishing injury. A hook in the eye! John came to visit. In the bed opposite was a man who, in tragic circumstance, had lost an eye. Thus it came to pass, in the history of famous introductions - "Dr Livingstone I presume"/" I am a British object"/ "But after me will come one who is more powerful than I" and so on - I was able to enjoin :

"John de Silentio, I'd like you to meet John Voice.
John Voice, John de Silentio."


Vale Joao Solitaire

joao solitaire
email in reply: 29 January 2007
RE: Big Day Out (Hepburn Springs)


Amen, dear Poeter.



love, Joao

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