| A flame in the form of a humument image [182K]
A homophobic idiot (Keith E Jackson, kjackson@cs.tamu.edu),
once posted a rant expressing how upset he was that his
tax dollars paid for "fairy art". He was foolish enough to
crosspost this rant to
talk.bizarre.
I responded by using
his tax dollars to propagate my flame of him. I flamed by
turning Jackson's post into a "humument" that exposes its subtext.
"Humument" images are in the mode of artist Tom Philips'
treatment of a Victorian novel. He painted on the pages
of the novel, leaving certain words uncovered. The uncovered
words tell a new story. The original title of the novel was
"A Human Document". Philips obscured all but the letters
"a hum ument", hence the name of the technique. The form owes
a lot to Burrough's cut-ups. |