Self-Portrait 1985
Posters;
Lots of them cover my walls:
Six feet of Marilyn Monroe,
A gold Corvette,
Heavy Metal ad- “Come to a
universe beyond imagination”,
NENA- a German rock band,
skier in an orange parka
and mirrored sunglasses
sun behind him on the
right, fog on the snow,
The Police,
sunset in
two F-16’s against an
icy background,
Divinyls- an Australian punk band (it takes
up space),
Two signs- “Dune Restoration Area, Keep Out”,
one in French,
Jennifer Beals in Flashdance,
ski trail maps-
Sugarloaf, Killington, Wildcat, Sugarbush,
Rocky Horror Picture Show ad,
another Corvette, this one Black from a magazine ad
I got my first day in college,
“Diplomacy: The art of saying ‘Nice Doggie’
‘til you can find a rock”,
Pictures used in my Principles of Media slide
show;
first untethered space
walk, eagle against the moon,
girl eating breakfast on
a tropical beach, couple sleeping
in a hammock,
My bulletin board (stop sign-shaped);
pictures of my old car, old
girlfriends, friends,
a valentine,
straightened foil from a Ring Ding,
my freshman basketball
letter from High School
(the only one I
got),
poster of green
map of
1980 Olympics- courtesy of Levi-Strauss
Company,
more Heavy Metal
– Den Conquers,
Clint Eastwood,
Humphrey Bogart-
An ad for Watership
Down:
“All
the
world will be your enemy,
Prince with a Thousand Enemies,
and when they catch
you,
they will kill you…
But
first, they must catch you”.
That’s me.
KWF