“Sam Parr collage process perhaps finally winding down, Hucka D. Is it time to start interpreting? Maybe that will help me seal the deal.”
Hucka D.:
Your choice. Do you want to start at the beginning?
bb:
Why not.
Hucka D.:
What’s happening here, then?
bb:
Well, this is the snapshot that was suppose to show Story Room’s new digs at Sam Parr State College, after they agreed to join the faculty and at least teach the course called “Composing with the colors red, yellow, blue”.
Hucka D.:
And then all these other things showed up in the collage… I mean, snapshot.
bb:
Correct. Karoz Blogger was super excited to find this out. “My college is turning into a *col*-lage — he emphasized the first syllable to associate it with the word college, see.
Hucka D.:
I see. There was talk of recreating all the elements of this collage as Second Life cutouts. This was rejected as being too literal.
bb:
It was discussed or at least thought of, yes.
Hucka D.:
Well talk about the images, then.
bb (taking a gander):
We start, obviously, with the central 3 figures of Story Room, standing on the stoop of their new home in Collagesity. Address: 2130.
Hucka D.:
Like the numbers above the entrance to the mystery corridor of the old Confluence Place. I miss that place.
bb:
It’s slightly off my actual property.
Hucka D.:
I haven’t been inside.
bb:
Believe me, there’s not much there. There’s nothing there in fact. Not in this dimension. But in the 2130 dimension I would assume Story Room has quite comfortable quarters. They haven’t complained yet.
Hucka D.:
Do they miss Stonethwaite? I know they each had comfortable beds in the various inns they owned there.
bb:
I believe they plan to go back.
Hucka D.:
Nice. So they’re just here for the semester? Kind of visiting faculty?
bb:
I suppose. But back to the collage…
Hucka D.:
Is Redd Foxx going to take their course?
bb:
I believe everyone in the college has enrolled in their course, Hucka D. All 6 or 7 of them.
Hucka D.:
Well if Redd Foxx has enrolled then the count would be 7. Because he is the last. And the first. Is there an actual prostitute working on the grounds of [Sam Parr State College]?
bb (laughs):
I don’t think so, Hucka D.
Hucka D.:
As I understand there are 5 Sam Parrs that have access to the college grounds, and one of them is a hooker. Like Carrcassonnee. And that brings up an interesting question. Which of the Parrs is real and owns the college here?
bb:
All 5, if that’s actually the correct number, own the college jointly, Hucka D.
Hucka D.:
Are any of them in this first collage?
bb:
No. (pause) So back to the collage…
Hucka D. (interrupting again):
All these images that I see come from the Falmouth series. This is simply a clearing out of that series so you can get to the meat of the Sam Parr stuff. Don’t you think?
bb:
There’s certainly that element.
Hucka D.:
I don’t think it needs interpreting. Except for the fact that you put this collage in the building to the left, with Roger Pine Ridge the First greeting people at the new gallery door. He stands in front of the 2141 building, interestingly enough. Yes, that’s interesting. 2130, then 2141. And you thought the address of this new gallery on the other side of the walkway from 2141 would be 2119, 11 down from 2130 instead of 11 up, see.
bb:
I see. But then I renamed it, in quick succession, “Gallery 2130”, then “Gallery 2130?”, then just “Gallery ?”. And then I simply eliminated the gallery and moved the new collages to the Admin Building of the campus, where they still are. And I don’t think they’ll move back here, even though the gallery has been re-rezzed just last night.
Hucka D.:
Tonight.
bb:
This is… you go ahead.
Hucka D.:
This is the lasting effects of Falmouth. We do not have to interpret. Do you want to move into other collages tonight?
bb:
Oh why not. Here’s the second, then, which is an animation. It refers to the 2 Roger Pine Ridges and the houses we 1, live in, and then, 2, *want* to live it. The nicer of the 2, the desired for house, is under Roger Pine Ridge 2, who is Roger Waters variant. The present house is under Roger Pine Ridge 1, or Barrett. Neither of the 2 houses are real, and neither are the 2 Rogers. The truth lies between the 2 in each case.
Hucka D.:
Good. Then we can move into collages 3 and 4. This is the picture of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Parr the Androgynous who bought the college at this point and renamed it from Falmouth to Sam Parr. Correct?
bb:
I believe so.
Hucka D.:
And this is a picture, in actuality, of 1 of the 5 Sam Parrs who plan to sue you for using their images in your collages.
bb:
Well…
Hucka D.:
It is, though.
bb:
Yeah. But I have to use Sam Parr images for a reason. In collage 4 the perch is revealed, which is the contraption owned by Roger Pine Ridge. Both of ’em. Supposedly Roger hid it in Kansas, but not the state. Instead, Kansas refers to a small canyon near my house where the toy happening called Lion Roar occurred Fall 2012.
Hucka D.:
I remember.
And in collage 5, with a picture of 2 fisherman — composite — from Sam Parr State *Park* in Jasper County, Illinois…
Hucka D.:
Good to get that off your chest.
bb:
Anyway, they reveal the perch again. 2 fish, one perpendicular to the other, reveal the contraption again, like on Sam Parr 04. It’s called “Perched Again.”
Hucka D.:
And then with collage 06 and 07, a diptych, we move into a [work] that compares in complexity to the first of the series. But this is pure Sam Parr now… we have cleared out most of the lingering influence of Falmouth. Haven’t we?
bb:
Maybe. Sam Parr, model, has become a symbol of God that is also Carrcassonnee, newly positioned inside the TILE Cathedral of the college. Baker Bloch appears below her, in worshipping position, just as he would in the cathedral. He asks questions as usual, and perhaps gets answers. He asks about TILE… a green being manifests to the left and legos of the color red, yellow, blue spill out of a barrel in front of him. This is obviously Story Room again in some way.
Hucka D.:
The green man is Karoz Blogger, the president of the college. The green man, the 4th, has always been Karoz. He’s always been here. I should know.
bb:
Because you’ve always been here.
Hucka D.:
Yes.
bb:
Cool. I now see this barrel is the same as the trash can connecting the 2 parts of the collage. This is the contraption again. And the yellow, blue, red marbles are directly above this joined trash can. That’s pretty cool — I didn’t intend it that way, or its not on purpose.
Hucka D.:
See? It’s good to interpret your collages. You see things that you didn’t consciously create.
bb:
Yes.
Hucka D.:
Redd Foxx appears on the shore of Sam Parr Reservoir. We should probably explain that the setting is Sam Parr State Park here and its central lake. Pretty place. Redd Foxx is the last student admitted to Sam Parr State College this Fall. And the first. He, unfortunately, inquired about the hooker.
bb:
The hooker, however, is just Carrcassonnee, joking around.
Hucka D.:
No joke. She is a hooker.
bb:
Carrcassonnee is a God. A minor God perhaps, but a kind of God.
Hucka D.:
Yes. She’s that too.
bb:
Let’s go to the other half of the diptych.
Baker Bloch again appears on his pillow in worshipping position. However, a Sam Parr image, crouching, fronts him instead of backs him, as in the first part. They are yin and yang, alpha and omega.
Hucka D.:
They are Whitesburg and Blackey, the parents of Foxx. He is black and white and red all over. He is of course a newspaper. And an embarrassed Skunk. Embarras… Ambraw. Hmm.
bb:
An actual red fox doubles for Redd Foxx. 2 Sam Parr wedding models stand close together in the center, framing the mirrored garbage container which we also know now is the contraption again, binding the 2 parts of the diptych together. A frog appears in the tree, and also in the sky. A martin bird looks on.
Hucka D.:
We’ll get back to that martin bird. What is, then, happening in collage 08?
bb:
Sam Parr reappears, with the head of Redd Foxx now.
Hucka D.:
The 2 have become one. A bed is below. A woman with the word HOOKER hovering above her head is to the side. A more shadowy, smaller man heads toward the hooker. The hooker has become Lancaster Dodd, the Hubbard double in the movie The Master. We have reached the meat of the Sam Parr collages at last… what they’re all about. It’s about TILE.
bb:
Thank you Hucka D. We’ll continue another night.
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