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Mathematical Statistics
text book, acrylic paint, various papers, collage, plastic, crayon, pastel, ink, marker, pen, pencil, colored pencil, watercolor, new and antique photographs, acetate, band-aid, masking tape, newsprint, butterfly wings
9"x6" -- $200.00
(Contains nudity and sexual images.)

This book started its life as a 1965 text book entitled "Mathematical Statistics." It has become a notebook, scrap book, sketch book, photo album, amorphous journal. Each page has its own feeling, its own tenor: an abstract drawing, a collage from magazines/newpapers/other books, or a picture. One spread even features a page from a Hindu comic book. Some of the text book pages have been replaced by acetate pages with unrelated images or words. Scattered throughout are original poems and writings. Often, the math text shows through these images.

Tabs on the sides are labeled with letters, numbers and a small elephant from a child's card game.

 

Below are sample pages from Mathematical Statistics.


Original Hand-bound Books
I have been making small, limited edition hand-bound books for several years. All but one feature my own writing; all are sewn in a simple Japanese book binding style; all are signed and dated on the back. See the list at right for available titles and prices.
Things I Can't Explain To a Child
computer graphics, original photos
5.5"x8.5" -- $30.00

I Am an Important Person Because... (text based on a found poem)
color photo-copied collage
5.5"x8.5" -- $30.00

A Handbook for the Cylce of the Last Days
color photo-copied collage mounted on pages of handmade paper from recycled material and redwood sawdust
6.5"x9.5" -- $30.00

14 Drawings by Amurna
(This book is a sot of companion piece to the painting Door for a Dead Child. The first page is an original poem about my dream of a little girl drawing pictures for me.)
color photo-copied original crayon drawings
5.75"x8.75" -- $30.00

My Day (or the chronicle of the life of Geoff Fiorito, observer-Autumn, 1996)
color photo-copied original photos
8.5"x8.25" -- $30.00



Photographs
Horses Tryptych
B & W photos matted, framed
12"x36" -- $250.00

Part of the Inner City Graffitti series.

There was a period of time, several years ago, where seemingly everywhere I went in San Francisco, I saw  these spectacular graffitti horses. The various textures they were painted on and the posters over or around them only added to their intrigue and context.

 


The bowing in this picture is due to a wide angle lens. 
The frame and picture are actually straight.

The bowing in this picture is due to a wide angle lens. 
The frame and picture are actually straight.
Stop Stealing Our Black Babies Tryptych
B & W photos, matted, framed
12"x36" -- $250.00
Part of the Inner City Graffiti Series.
Many years ago, these images were posted in and around Berkeley and Oakland, California, by Black Muslims who were charging white-run government child welfare departments with stealing black babies to place in white foster care homes. Someone else attempted to deface the text of the accusation around the baby's picture and the resulting images were haunting: a baby staring out surrounded by black clouds, rips, gouges, tears.


Additional Photo Sets Coming Soon
 

I have always loved statuary and sculpture and have never thought of them as stationary. They move at a speed entirely different from our own.
 


Victory

The Waiting

Doorknocker, Scotland

The Backs of Famous
Statues Series

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