Trying to be just like me
Trying to be just like me
Date
Undated
Edition Size
unique
Media
Ink, Newsprint
Binding
Accordion
Dimensions
9 × 10 in
Pages
24
Location
McKinleyville, CA
Collection
Collection Development, Unique Books$ 8,200.00
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Princeton University
This epic accordion fold book features 26 ink pen interventions on newspaper, creating a veritable tour de force storm of sardonic and penetrating critiques of American White Supremacy and its relentless appropriation and degradation of Native American identity and culture. The book is an antidote to, and an incantation against, racism, white fragility and cultural larceny.
For decades Brian D. Tripp had a daily practice of drawing interventions onto the daily newspaper while he drank his first cup of coffee of the day. These interventions evidences Brian’s essential sense of critical, yet elegant and perceptive Karuk humor as well as his affiliation with California/Bay Area situationist movement which is associated with the global situationist art and political movement (which is also precedential to the punk aesthetics and culture of many of Briaan’s younger artist friends.)