OVO

November 1987. Twenty-four pages, 4.25 inches by 3.6 inches. Black and white photocopy inside envelope with stencil and hand made stamp exterior, stencil art on page torn from first edition of Queer by W. S. Burroughs. Copy art, BBS, surrealism, Neoism, Lunalogue by Cunnichant Night Owl.

[Front Cover] Scratched photocopy.
[02] Statement.
[03] Introduction.
[04][05][06][07][08][09][10] Art Poetique by Andre Breton and Jean Schuster.  One of my favorite surrealist poems.  “I have seen neither majesty in a king nor ministry in a priest. I have attracted attention to the mockery of the sceptre, the slime of the sandal. I have attacked things broadside.”  That notion has certainly held true, decades later.
[11] More About OVO.
[12] Collage.
[13] Cut-up text from Queer by William S. Burroughs.
[14][15][16][17] Operation Negation by Karen Elliot. I received this text and ‘Give Up Art, Save the Starving’ by Karen Elliot (published in OVO 14 SUFFERING) at different times and in different states.  Karen Elliot was a name shared by many people around the world.  Years later the particular Karen Elliot who wrote those two essays revealed herself to me. The Art Strike was described by Stewart Home the next year in chapter 16 his recommended book The Assault on Culture.
[18] Collage.
[19][20][21] Lunalogue by Cunnichant Night Owl.  I first heard of what would be known as AIDS in 1981, when Judith Hooper wrote an article in OMNI magazine about a mysterious ‘decreased resistance’ to disease among gay men. In 1987, when OVO 3 was published, I did not know anyone like the people described in this story. I published it because I could tell Cunnichant Night Owl was describing something important. She disappeared from my mailbox soon after. Who she was, how she found me, why she wrote me and what happened to her are all mysteries.
[22] text by Andre Breton.
[23] Back cover.

OVO is a collection of new works in the public domain edited and published by Trevor Blake since 1987.