I think there is something so exciting about that POP moment that exploded in the 60's. And it dawned on me that Richard Hamilton, England's prime "Duchampian," was a huge influence on me back when I was just a bright-eyed little boy. Well before I knew what a "Duchampian" could be.
The first piece of "art" that I ever put up on my bedroom wall when I was just a wee lad was Hamilton's Beatles poster...
And I think the first "art-work" I ever created was my own little Beatles collage which I tacked up next to it. Whatever happened to it? And the first rock and roll album I ever owned, (the cover was designed by Hamilton), and called my own was "The White Album."
There was something breath-taking about that cover. Really. Something about the pure whiteness of it that was mysterious, and captivating.
What's funny, I realize all these many years later that I am basically a "collagist" in the Hamiltonian mode. Whether I'm writing a play for Black Forest, or writing a song for whitewolfsonicprincess, I am taking bits and pieces from many different influences and putting them together. Trying to make new, connected things out of many unconnected things. Very, very Richard Hamilton channeling Duchamp!
