Golems Waiting Redux (redux)

And, of course, Golems Waiting Redux, e-book or print, can be bought here. It is a lovely object, even if I do say so myself.

Kudos to Daniel Duford, Doug Spangle, Heather Watkins - and to Publication Studio, who did the printing and binding.

Golems is also held by 3 libraries: Oregon State University (Corvallis, OR), Multnomah County Library (Portland, OR), and by MOMA (NY).

Golems Waiting Redux

Golems Waiting Redux was published on Sept. 23, 2011, printed and bound by Publication Studio, in Portland.

From the Introduction:

During the last week of September 2002, the first of the public art projects commissioned by the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art was installed on a vacant lot in the city, at the corner of SW Taylor & 3rd. On the lot itself Daniel Duford kiln-fired 3 huge crouching figures, golems; on one of the adjacent buildings, on the wall facing 3rd Ave., he painted 2 more figures, large male nudes with the same physique. They stood looking outward, with open hands.

The installation was intended to last a month.

Vandals immediately began smashing the sculptures. By the fourth night they had all been smashed. RV (Branham, founder & editor of Gobshite Quarterly) and I went to photograph them at our first opportunity — caught the MAX into town, scuttled along shopfronts, hurrying because of the very light rain, step, step, shopfront, shopfront –

An empty lot – grass, mud, a liver-red wall – with something flesh-coloured in the corner. In that first split second I felt a great misery; it prickled and numbed at the same time. I heard the sound of a huge and silent lamentation. It seemed like the sound of the Holocaust.

I looked towards the corner because of the colour.

This is GobQ's 3rd hardcopy title. Like El Gato Eficaz / Deathcats, it is also available as an e-book.