Paper tiger in a plastic bag
Using pipe cleaners for whiskers and fabric paint with many shades of green for individual blades of grass [LEAF BY NIGGLE, a story by J.R.R. Tolkien, suggested that a painter could paint a tree with individual leaves, unless his neighbor needed the canvas to patch a leaking roof], I painted the Paper Tiger No. 1 on bright orange posterboard in 1996 and consider it one of my key concepts. The original text, from the little red book, QUOTATIONS FROM CHAIRMAN MAO TSETUNG, Chapter 6, Imperialism and All Reactionaries Are Paper Tigers, also included some thoughts about evil genius in relation to becoming a Freudian expert on the humor of the Vietnam war. What a hoot.
Facing my bathroom mirror is a poem I wrote on the poster that was used for BINDER CHECK-IN in Saint Paul, Minnesota for Census 2000. The mirror image is a bit faint in some of the pictures, but the exact words are a bit harsher than: who could be so highly pissed to think that I'm not free to tell the world in my own words bomb the Chinese embassy? Usually Paper Tiger faces out the window: Once I set the paper tiger next to a mirror so the whiskers would look more three-dimensional. It has faded since then.
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