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JIGSAW PUZZLES FOR THE INSANE: electro-shock therapy flashback..(c) 2006.elton houck

full title)===="ELECTROSHOCK THERAPY FLASHBACK"===== (c)2006 Elton Houck...Series--JIGSAW PUZZLWS FOR THE INSANE..This work is entitled: "ELECTROSHOCK THERAPY FLASHBACK." The series project consists of various forms representing insane puzzles. The works of this series are completed via my HP 4850 SCANJET in a process I call SCANOLOGY.--------- ----------------------------------- In this patrticular puzzle a 43 year old patient at BACKWARD NO=PROGRESS PSYCHATRIC RETROWARD is allowed to extend his "casual dress Fridays" (no straightjackets) for a whole month if he can solve the puzzle...The man is allowed to request up to three problem solving aids for his assignment. The patient, one Joseph Cavanaugh Salhapaticia requests the following three aids: (1) a medium sized unripened cantalope; (2)a paperback edition of Aleksandra Solzhenitsyn's "The Gulag Archipelago"; (3) one 12" circumference purple and white striped plastic frizbee. But you the observer must surely declare, "THIS IS INSANE"...and of course you are correct...Now you may begin to solve the puzzle...

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mohammad safavi naini 29 Sep 2022

Nice

K L Marsala 22 Jan 2006

aaaaaaaaaaaaaa ur driving me nuts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Love ur thinking elton! great comp.

thea walstra 22 Jan 2006

Free, creative and amazing work

Analua 22 Jan 2006

AMAZING!!!!!!! STRONG!!!!!!! GREAT!!!!!!!

Fred Chuang 22 Jan 2006

Scary gaze!! That is your eye, isn't it...very scary with no hair...the pieces of paper almost make it squid-like or...I can't figure out the colors....maybe I'm just imagining the eye...?? Surely not...very intruiging and disturbing!

Artist Reply: Sorry Fred...you missed it this time...no human parts on this one...the dark forms are pieces of "acid free " deep blue (almost cobalt black) paper...The background is an orange T-shirt---and to be precise, it is an AMERICAN OUTPOST T-shirt with a logo of "AO Quality Boards Beach Gear." Thanks for the critique...I did not mean to scare you guys with the thought that you were viewing some madman's desecration of the human body for some demented art expression...No way Jose'....I have an aversion for pain...or as better put by an actor which I refuse to name, "I have a low tolerance for death!"