"A Fatal Figure On The Wall, UNC-Chapel Hill Art Lab Building, North Carolina" (c) 1978, 2021 Stu Jenks.
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The Fatal Figures by Stu Jenks PDF edition for free...
The Fatal Figures by Stu Jenks ePub edition for free...
To read the whole story about when I got in trouble in college for created this art piece, just download the book from the above files. If you want the real live book book for your collection, just contact me. I still have a few copies left.
And what's not in the book? The experience I had taking the above image a few months ago, and the thoughts I had.
I'm older and I do different types of art now, but I would be lying if I said I had a ton of regret around this conceptual art piece. Yes, I should have done more research on the traffic accidents and I really didn't want to hurt the family of the child who died in a pedestrian fatality, by putting one of these, unknowingly, on the pavement right in front of their house. That was bad, a mistake and I truly regret it, and I still feel a little ashamed about it. Thank God the police suggested I write them a letter.
But as Elvis Costello sings, '...Alison, my aim is true...' I was trying to have people drive more careful in Chapel Hill and for a few weeks in the fall of 1978, I might have done just that. Or at least brought some awareness to recent automotive fatalities.
Nah. Probably not. Just a weird artist doing weird stuff, most people probably thought, and they would be correct.
That would be me, Stu Jenks, now and then.
And I was giving a boat load of cocaine from strangers because of my notoriety in the late 70's, so there's that.
But that night last winter, 42 years after the fact, I was amazed that the test image I spray-painted on the wall of the Art Lab Building was still there. Good enamel paint I guess, plus porous Carolina brick.
And a willingness, benign or intended, by the people of the Art Department at the University of North Carolina, to NOT sandblast it away.
I do thank you.
Cover image for the book The Fatal Figures (Or How I Got In Trouble With The Law While In Art School) by Stu Jenks.
Also, all images on this website can be printed by me on my archival printer, using archival paper, then signed, boarded, glassine-bagged, then mailed to you
8 1/2 by 11s are $45, plus S & H. 13 x 19s are $95, plus S & H. (Image rights are also for sale. Cost of those are specific to the client and the job.) Shipping runs between $10 and $20.
Contact me via email at [email protected], or through Facebook Messenger, if you want to buy something.
And check out Elvis Costello performing Alison on Elvis Presley's guitar. It's pretty sweet.
Stay safe. Keep your lamps trimmed and burning. Love, Stu.