THE HORROR SHOW

PICTURES FROM THE KETTLE GALLERY OPENING (thanks jenny!)



Barker talks to some cute girls admiring my pieces.

Barker talking to me on the phone.

Barkers 3 works.

Erase The Fear & Balance A Tear

OPENING TONIGHT:
Thomas Arthur Schaefer @

If your ass is in Dallas... you should be there!
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TEXT MESSAGES FROM THE SHOW

JENNY: I just bought a great piece from bones
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JENNY: Yup. Your work has been gAWKED at and i have you on.
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BARKER: I forgot to tell u i lost ur sticks. Oops. I sorry. Its what livin out ur car will do.
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BARKER: This very cute girl says ur brilliant & creepy. What a compliment!
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BARKER: I just met this artist from atl.
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BARKER: ? Doug. Redblood gallery yo yo gallery
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JENNY: I did your deed... They could have turned out better... But it is crowded
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Cricket shoping today. Picked up 300 of them...3 full bags. Of course the questions... what do you need so many for. Afterward I stopped at some shitty 'Halloween Superstore'... bullshit, they had nothing of interest. Of course some cock-sucker though it would be interesting to side swipe the front of my car while I was in the store. Thanks you asshole sitting in his white van. Motherfucker!! Dents, scratches, etc.
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My version of the television show 'Six Feet Under'. After you euthanize these crickets, you have to one by one move their limbs back into position. If you don't do this the painting ends up looking like a thing with crickets glued to it. But when you get the legs right suddenly the work takes on a life like appearance and the damn little suckers look like they are crawling all over each other. Just like they do in real life. And that's one of the keys to the work, not only should they be positioned correctly but they need to crawl over each other and be in mass. If you can do that, then you can make a really creepy painting.
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MAILING TRANSFERRAL
OCTOBER 20, 2006
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STATTS - FNF (media mail)

Burning Inside The Fire Of Life

Some pics of my newest works that will soon be on display at

The Haunted Show
Kettle Art Gallery
Dallas, Texas
October 20th - November 4th

This mixed media exhibit aims to conjure up your worst nightmares and your darkest fantasies. It's not for small children, the faint of heart or "those who wish to maintain pure thoughts."
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Details on the works

Dimensions
2 @ 4ft x 1.5ft x 4in (121.9cm x 45.7cm x 10cm)

Contents:
2,000 pieces of Brach's candy corn
226 large cricket
54 arctic mice-pinkies
45 superworm
13 dried dandelion heads
8 rubber-stop glass bottles
2 blue / 2 red betta fish (Betta Splendens)
2 long-tail lizard (Takydomus Sexineatus)
2 bahaman anole (Anolis Carolinensis)
1 chicken spine
2 bundles of sticks w/ bone
2 rubber halloween masks
1 drop of artists blood in each bottle
1 issue of LOOK Magazine circa 1971 "Satan Is Rising"
1 satanic verse spoken before each work under a full moon
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The Quipster



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The Savant



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(cricket detail from The Quipster)

First... Cast The Beam Out Of Thine Own Eye And Then The Mote From Mine

One of 2 new works-in-progress for an upcoming group show.