de-mystified.

Be gentle.

Not sure where I am, but glad I'm there.

I don't know where you've put me Pat, but thanks!

Step it up yo!

Blake
other Blake
Laura
Mary Ellen
Kurtiss
Scott
Courtney
Michele
Charity
Nina
Nyssa 
Myrtle
Chad
Gina

Briant

Vicky

Donald
Gothic Hangman
Scotty
Ron
Jimmy
Christian
Quintron

Carrie

Pat 

Ron 

Kara

Rita

Chris

Emily

Michael

Pam

Dan

Seven Buck
Ann
Susanne
David
Helen
Alex
Elizabeth
Matthew
Jeffrey
The guy at the cheesecake store
Chester
Dan
Diane
Marylin
Julie
Stephany
Sunflower the tortoise
Gabriel
Abe
Christie
Bob
Regina
the guy at The Joint
the girl at the CAC

and you could be next!

Prime real estate

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S1qiy5SBZI

Updated list

Blake
other Blake
Laura
Mary Ellen
Kurtiss
Scott
Courtney
Michele
Charity
Nina
Nyssa 
Myrtle
Chad
Gina

Briant

Vicky

Donald
Gothic Hangman
Scotty
Ron
Jimmy
Christian
Quintron

Contributors

Thank you!

Thank you Ann.

Ann Dick

Adam's post about his wallet picture project made me think of my student's insult, which I just put in my status. I'm totally not putting Adam's picture in my wallet and taking it out and discussing at intervals...I'll be your control group, Adam...but I love how he writes about the idea, and I imagine at least 3...or let's not get crazy...2...of my friends might participate in the project.

Thoughts and Feelings: Personal space

adamernestfarrington.blogspot.com

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    Adam Farrington You can't spare 1/8 of an inch for art?
    

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    Ann Dick Oh, but it's not the size, it's the weight of your identity in my pocket. How will it change my perception of you? What ideas will suggest themselves to me about why I carry around your picture? What will I do when you want to start sending out 1/2 inch status updates? But I'm already feeling bad about my knee-jerk non-participatory stance.
    

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    Adam Farrington Don't feel bad, you are participating more than you know.
    

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My first patrons.

All about the presentation.

Tucked away in a safe place.

Waiter! I believe there is a portrait in my soup.

The campaign begins at home.

In the bathroom!

I looked in the mirror, and there I was.

The data base of conceptual art patrons.

My deepest gratitude to the following people, who have agreed to carry a wallet portrait of myself, in perpetuity, as part of my conceptual art project.   http://walletportrait.blogspot.com/2010/12/personal-space.html
Blake
other Blake
Laura
Mary Ellen
Kurtiss
Scott
Courtney
Michele
Charity
Nina
Nyssa
Myrtle
Chad
Gina

Concessions in conceptual art.

It has come to my attention that some of you deem your wallet space to be to be too VALUABLE for you to donate a measly wallet-portrait sized portion of it for my concept art, as explained in my post, "personal space".  http://walletportrait.blogspot.com/2010/12/personal-space.htmlBecause I am a very accommodating concept artist, I have printed some 1/8 of an inch wallet portraits, that you can carry with very little imposition.

If you tend to lose things, the way I do, a dab of glue should keep it from migrating.

How can you resist this face?

Personal space

Some jerks tagged my alley gate.

They're probably getting off on this media coverage.

While it's a universal human urge to say, "See me, I exist", I resent having my personal space commandeered.

It's not as if I wouldn't like to be out there with a can of paint, spraying my identity all over everyone's everything.         In my gut, it's very appealing, but I am hobbled by my respect for private property, and my fear of the law.

Maybe at it's core, existence is one big psychic land grab. Everyone jockeying for position in other people's personal space.

As an artist, I am acutely aware of this possibility, the need for the individual to stake their claim in the collective awareness.

Facebook is evidence of this universal human need to be present in another human beings personal space, even if it is only digital.

This is my Facebook profile picture.

Times 48

I would like for my profile picture to expand beyond these digital horizons. I would be extremely grateful to any of you who would lend some of their personal space, and assist me with this conceptual artwork, by carrying a wallet portrait of myself in their wallet in perpetuity, or until it no longer becomes feasible to do so.

I will mail to anyone who is willing to help me, a grid of 4 wallet pictures. 1 for your wallet, and 3 to pass along to potential collaborators in the future. (makes a great gift)

Wallet space tight? don't worry...     http://walletportrait.blogspot.com/2010/12/concessions-in-concept-art.html

It is important that at some point you pull out the wallet portrait and say something about me. 

That we are friends. That we were in the service together. That you found this is in your girlfriends glove compartment, and you feel awkward about asking her about it.

It doesn't matter what you say or if it's true, as long as it fits the template of wallet portrait banter.

Part of the motivation behind this conceptual art piece, is that nobody has ever carried a portrait of me in their wallet before, and I think it is high time for me to rectify this situation.

Please email me your mailing address, so that you can be included in this work of art.

adammetal3@yahoo.com

Interesting accounts of the wallet portrait project are welcome, but not necessary.
Participators in the wallet picture project will have their first names listed in a special data-base.