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August 12th Postcard – Brest Bridge

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Brest Poems (August 11th – August 22nd)

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August 2nd Postcard ala Jimmy Again

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August 2011 Postcard Poetry August 1st – 5th

08/04/201105/14/2015 Dawn Pendergast Leave a comment 1486 views

This is a simple concept. Send a handwritten poem out every day to a list of people and get one in return. I’m checking myself before I wreck myself.

This is roughly half of the 90 books I made for the Dusie Kollective this year

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leaves fall leaves

02/07/201105/14/2015 Dawn Pendergast 3 Comments 3651 views

After many a night ironing and folding and taping and sewing and cutting and clipping and starting over: here it is. Dusie 2011. Open publication – Free publishing – More dusie

Art by Paul Klinger

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Animal Sculptures

01/13/201105/15/2015 Dawn Pendergast 2 Comments 3476 views

These are the only objects that pulled me through the latest bout of homesickness brought on by snow. Thanks be to Paul for all his wonkiness.

drawing by Dawn Pendergast

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Inanimal: Animal Poems

01/05/201105/14/2015 Dawn Pendergast Leave a comment 1915 views

I don’t usually venture into the world of chapbook fabrication outside of the Dusie kollektiv, but I took a few weeks to make Paul a chapbook for Christmas. I sketched these critters over and over until they mildly resembled animals.

portraitofjimmyingreen

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Unfinished Portrait of Jimmy in Green

04/02/200905/15/2015 Dawn Pendergast Leave a comment 1201 views

My unfinished portrait of jimmy in green. I can’t seem to get the rest of his face right. I just keep doing the hair. His hair is prodigious. At first I thought I would one-day give this to Jimmy. But now I know I need to look at it often so it’s staying right where it …

a smattering of stars

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Tax-Dollar Super-Sonnet

03/29/200907/07/2015 Dawn Pendergast Leave a comment 1767 views

Nicole Mauro’s Tax-Dollar Super-Sonnet is in mailboxes now. I have lived it and breathed it for the last 2 weeks and now I’m stepping back to admire my badassery. This is just one of many chapbooks made for the annual Dusie Collective, but damn it, it’s ALMOST DONE and I’m celebrating! I cleaned out two …

Portrait of a mustache by Paul Klinger in the Fall of 2008

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Portrait of a Mustache by Paul Klinger

03/20/200905/15/2015 Dawn Pendergast Leave a comment 1223 views

Who is obsessed with Proust right now.

Sent Jimmy and Misty a little letter.

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So sewing

03/17/200905/15/2015 Dawn Pendergast Leave a comment 1374 views

chilly-man

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will he still be chilly?

03/09/200905/15/2015 Dawn Pendergast Leave a comment 1035 views

Upcycled khakis with schoolboy embroidered. Soon to be the property of misty and jimmy.

This is probably the best thing I've ever done.

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Crafts

03/03/200905/15/2015 Dawn Pendergast Leave a comment 3164 views