Collage 09 Interpretation 01

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So here we go. I’m as ready as I’ll probably ever be. And Hucka D., I’m assuming, is going to help. It’s in his job description[ after all]. I call this one “Darth Redder”. It’s a two part animation, like all 4 collages making up the Collage 8, 9, 10, 11 tetraptych. Should it have an overall name? Anyway, I’ve already given an interpretation of Collage 08 (“Animation Station”) here and also here.

“Darth Redder, Part 1”

What are we looking at here? We’re seeing the image of Redd Foxx playing Fred Sanford doing his famous heart attack routine already mentioned a couple of times recently in this blog. To remind everyone of the story — and the cruel, ironic twist about it — check here:

http://www.wikilou.com/1.20.0/index.php?title=Redd_Foxx

Foxx appeared to be making a comeback with the 1991 series The Royal Family, in which he co-starred with his long-time friend Della Reese. During a break from rehearsals on October 11, 1991, a fatal heart attack felled him on the set. Reportedly, Reese and the rest of the cast and crew thought he was doing his classic (and in this case, ironic) “I’m coming, Elizabeth” fake heart attack routine he made famous on Sanford And Son, even going as far as collapsing to the floor, although that was not part of the usual schtick. However, this heart attack was real, and Foxx never regained consciousness.

The central picture of Mr. Foxx from “Darth Redder” of course is not the picture of his actual death but the fake one from his famous Sanford and Son series. Superimposed on his torso is an actual red fox, harking back to this older post. I’ll quote some again…

https://bakerbloch.wordpress.com/2014/08/04/oracle-time/

bb (“reading” map):

A little carr. Spider. To navigate the narrow streets of Bath. Drive/Steer a Littcarr. Then something about Reddfoxx and racial issues. White… black. Take a Gander, I suppose.

And I believe that’s the first mention of Redd Foxx in this Frank and Herman Einstein! Blog. Slightly later we find that he could be one of the 6 or 7 enrollees at the short lived Sam Parr State College in Collagesity, Noru, and seemingly the only African-American of the bunch. We also find out that although he is only a straight “C” student, he still may have better entrance grades than anyone else.

Foxx appropriately then appears in several Sam Parr series collages, namely Collage 07 (a diptych with Collage 06), and then also in Collage 08. In Collage 07, he rises from the far edge of Sam Parr Lake, below a giant arching, frog tossing figure of Sam Parr Model, who seems to be a stand-in here for the primary Collagesity deity we call Carrcassonnee. He flashes an okay sign with his hand to the picture viewer. Although we have red foxes in a number of collages prior to this, we don’t have Redd Foxx himself appearing until now. He has manifested.

In the first part of the same of the dipytch (left hand side) we have a red fox, the same image used in “Darth Redder”. This is also a new collage image (not the same as the old foxes), and is drawn by another Sam Parr who I call Sam Parr Artist (or SPA) to differentiate from Sam Parr Model (SPaM) and the rest.

I consciously doubled these images in that diptych, but on opposite sides. In “Darth Redder”, the images are combined or fused in the middle. I had the feeling that the red fox in Redd’s arms is his soul or ka, perhaps to become an ahk. When it departs from his arms, he is dead, attack completed. Some ancient Egyptians believed that under favorable circumstances the ahk is created that could present itself as a ghost of the deceased. Redd Foxx himself is said to have haunted his old Las Vegas house, seized by the IRA for back taxes in 1989.

In part 2 of the animation…

“Darth Redder, Part 2”

… the fox is gone, and instead we have a floating body appearing from behind a rock wall to the right. It has seemingly replaced the Darth Vader “reaching” image from part 1, and instead we find the dark Vader mask covering the face of the “dead” Redd Foxx. This is the departure of the ka from the body in my opinion at the moment of death.

Redd Foxx represents The Father, as he played in Sanford *and Son*. There he faked heart attacks. This one depicted here is the real deal. An sad faced orange m&m pendant hanging in the same tree looks on.

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