ma take this pope hat off of me
I can't use it anymore
it's getting dark too dark to see
feels like I'm knocking on heaven's door

It suddenly became necessary for me to invent a homemade wallpaper paste from materials on hand that could work better than any commercial wallpaper paste I've ever used. So I did. But now I'm my sense of what's possible has inflated to unsafe proportions. May have to stop work until I recover.

I was working on a series of home-printed folded paper mini sculptures depicting newsboxes from towns around Kentucky. It stalled out when I couldn't quite get the color I wanted for some of them. But I fooled around and learned a few promising things, and hope to follow through soon.