Historical Society Box 4: “Sweet Blood and Devotion”

$100 USD ***SOLD***

Items:

01. One (1) telephone with 1/8” stereo hookup. Used to listen to anything with a headphone jack. Featured prominently in With Teeth exhibition at Priska Juska curated by Ryan Schneider. Only item ever purchased via the internet.
02. One (1) whiskey decanter. Used once or twice. Saved from James J. Williams Sr.’s basement bar at 2132 East 37th Street, Brooklyn.
03. One (1) shaving brush. Used from 2003-5. Retired.
04. One (1) wax seal box. Empty. First wax sealer. Gift of Rebecca Shulman.
05. One (1) champagne cork. Circa 2007.
06. One (1) bottle of nasal solution used to maintain nose after week-long narcotic binges.
07. One (1) pencil sharpener.
08. One (1) polaroid of a lighter. Lighter was lost on a plane back from Los Angeles in 2003.
09. One (1) painted black canvas. In a show in Paris, 2008.
10. One (1) chest x-ray referral from Callen-Lorde.
11. One (1) self-portrait after evening of taking too many Klonopin. Head wound and concussion.
12. One (1) unpaid ticket from the Transit Adjudication Bureau for hopping a turnstile.
13. Glenlivet tissue paper
14. One (1) coke straw, never used.
15. One (1) brown color sample.
16. One (1) white art handling glove.
17. One (1) piece of black lace.
18. invites from “A Cloak for any Occasion.”
19. One (1) piece of used sandpaper.
20. One (1) found photograph of woman who looks like artist’s Aunt Florence.
21. photocopies of drawing from Paris. Words say, “You murdered my kidney in a dream last night”
22. One (1) magazine tear of Deborah Harry photograph. 90’s-ish.
23. One (1) teacup cutout from 1961 Life Magazine, 1961. Meant for a collage that was never made.
24. One (1) white pencil.
25. photocopies of collage of Marlene Dietrich dancing.
26. List of checklist and original titles of double exhibition in Paris 2008.
27. One (1) broken pewter foot from something somewhere.
28. One (1) fax to mother from a court in Pennsylvania issuing a warrant for arrest.
29. critique from a college professor.
30. some phone numbers on the back of preliminary prose poetry for a reading.
31. One (1) illustration of a guillotine from a book entitled “Things.”
32. One (1) small screwdriver. For eyeglasses?
33. One (1) Doesteyevsky quote about lies written on a scrap of paper.
34. One (1) pipe that was once the property of Laura Baran. Used to smoke any number of substances.
35. One (1) piece of used sealing wax. Must have been a favorite. Rather small.
36. One (1) program from the Academy of Arts and Letters Induction Ceremony. Knew or met a surprising about of members. Nicole Stringfellow accompanied.
37. One (1) mock switchblade comb gift of Dan Estabrook. Reminded artist of cousin Christopher actually stabbing him with the comb. Ouch.