Joan O'Connor: "I think my recent work reflects the time-honored practice of taking common, ordinary images and objects and placing them in an artistic context, but with a little twist: I select images or things that are or were at home in ordinary human life and commerce but have some extra significance, which is carried over into their artistic incarnation."
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Hobo
By Audrey McGinn
[New York]: Joan O'Connor, 2008. Edition of 8.
8.75 x 11.25 x 1.75"; 32 leaves. Accordion fold attached to back pastedown. Type and photo images printed by an Epson ink jet printer onto Rives BFK paper with Birch, Futura, and Stencil typefaces. Contains 15 original etchings. Front pastedown a scarf identified with hoboes. Bound in linen boards with title in red on spine and housed in a matching linen slipcase.
McGinn's thirteen poems speak of life as a hobo in the Depression years. O'Connor's etchings foreground a mode of private communication among a ghostly sector of the population.
Joan O'Connor: "I have created a series of 'Hobo Prints' etchings of the graphic signs that 1930s hobos used to communicate with each other. These signs were scratched, usually in chalk, on sidewalks, fences, barns, railroad cars, and the like, and conveyed simple but important messages. One of my prints depicts the sign meaning 'Don't Give Up.' The casual passerby would seldom notice the signs and their meaning would certainly escape him or her. Similarly, to the unknowing viewer my images will be pleasant shapes; but to one who knows their history and significance, they will speak of another time."
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