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“Mark Murphy, Desert Agave, Arizona” (c) Stu Jenks 2019 [Extended Family Series]

“Mark Murphy, Desert Agave, Arizona” (c) Stu Jenks 2019. 59 inches tall.

Price: $250, shipping not included. All pieces hang off the wall. (I will hand deliver all work to anywhere in North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. I'll just need some gas money. Outside of the area, I will ship USPS, FedEx or UPS but it'll be pricey. We'll figure it out.)

 

Mark and I have been close for over 35 years. We have been through marriages, divorces, sickness, health, richer, poorer. Sounds like we are married but we are not. But we are bonded in the belief that deep friendships are important and healing, and that they never should have allowed the designated hitter in baseball.

Go Diamondbacks. Go Tigers. Go Giants.

 

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“Dennis The Homeless Man, Desert Agave Stalk, Arizona” © Stu Jenks 2019 [Extended Family Series]

“Dennis The Homeless Man, Desert Agave Stalk, Arizona” 59 inches © 2019

 

Price: $250, shipping not included. All pieces hang off the wall. (I will hand deliver all work to anywhere in North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. I'll just need some gas money. Outside of the area, I will ship USPS, FedEx or UPS but it'll be pricey. We'll figure it out.)

 

Late at night, when I’m taking a break out front of my studio in Tucson, I can hear the homeless man across the way coughing. He comes in late on his bike, leaves early at dawn. He sleeps in front of an office that is vacant. When I’ve seen him on occasion ride up, he doesn’t have a bad vibe about him at all, not like some of the other homeless men who occasionally sleep in the neighborhood. ‘But for the grace of God go I,’ I often think when I hear him over there, hacking up a lung. I’m a recovering drug addict and alcoholic. If I had continued to drink and drug, my fate could have easily been homelessness. Easily.

From 1/14/2020: I found out that his name is Dennis. He is a little crazy but he is kind and seemingly sweet. He takes my cigarette butts from my ash tray when I’m not here. Rolls his own from them. The homeless call them ‘refries’.

From 3/3/2020: I haven’t seen Dennis in a few weeks now. Hope he’s OK. In Dennis' regular sleeping spot, another homeless man sits in his wheelchair. America. The richest country in the world. Shameful how we treat our poor. 

 

#dennisthehomelessman, #extendedfamilyseries, #stujenks, #desertagave.