In September 2005 the Retrocognition exhibit was held at the
Gish Art gallery near the crux of Germantown and the Highlands in Louisville.
Most of the works were acrylic on large square sheets of pegboard.

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1. Bug Girl's Enigma There have been many bug girls in my life. This is dedicated to all of them. The background static is an example of Chum, my system of Appalachian Voodoo runic code, which, by its very nature, is partially planned and partially automatism. 2. Le clown d'hallucination Originally titled "Romulan Clown". I came to realize that the clown is not just alien, he is hyperdimensional. Like Mescalito or Kokopelli. 3. Puppet and Master KET's Barbara Deeb filmed me working on this one for the upcoming PBS television piece. This is the first in an ongoing series of paintings dealing with Ventriloquism. You should have killed me last year. 4. Extraterrestrial in Orange Don't ask me what I think about UFOs and aliens, because I might tell you. 5. Frosty at the Crossroads This one didn't appear on opening night but emerged on the second day. You cannot see the crossroads in the image but you know they are there, just as you know Frosty is holding a cigar in his hand beyond the picture's borders. 6. Insomnia and Anxiety This deliberately disjointed patchwork mural was done on 60 panels of thin cardboard, many of which were not combined until after each panel was painted separately. The Chum language makes another appearance as TV static. 7. Edgar Cayce with Two-headed Calf In addition to being the birthplace of psychic channeller Edgar Cayce, the town of Hopkinsville, KY was once well known for its high incidence of barnyard mutations. This two-headed calf poses here with one of Hoptown's more famous mutations. 8. Bringing the Country to the City A portrait of writer-philosopher Ron Whitehead and his folksinger wife Sarah inhabiting a shifting, warping, roiling, Dhalgren-esque city of the mind. This is one of my many homages to the woodcut style, and I think the ghost of Frans Masereel was looking over my shoulder the whole time. 9. Vodkatology This painting is brought to you by Danzka. 10. In Revenge or in Love Are you the voodoo doll? Or the person with the hat pin? Both, maybe?