On the Lawns of Morpheus

Singing at the Laughing Goat with Max Davies

Day Crack Into Moments (Notebook series)

 Johnne Perez and his Sculptures

Me's

 

 Carmen Hawk, Mariah O'Brien & Lucia Santini Ribisi (Italy)

 Photo of Ic Explura by Carmen Hawk

 My Mother at age 12

 John Spencer and me London 2003

John Frusciante 1991

All art ,writing and notebook collages by Toni Oswald Copyright 2016

You Really Were the Prettiest Star!

In tall trees apples grow,
no one knows where we go.
Forever seams,
sows,
grows
Bowie shines, it's like snow.
Talking inside out,
Talking sideways
when all those beautiful clothes were ruined in the pool.
Real good food
Style
cocaine
We just tore up the experience.
X
I cried in bed this morning when I heard the news that Bowie had passed. He was such a huge inspiration for my art, music and life. I'm crying again now. RIP Mr. Bowie, you really are a starchild, hold now, dancing in and out of light.

Collage and writing by Toni Oswald Copyright 2016

How To Discard The Life You've Now Ruined - Lara Glenum

HOW TO DISCARD THE LIFE YOU’VE NOW RUINED

Sneak in to the “shame hole”

Remove the squirming pink sack from the gray pelt

& put a second body inside

or hang the body from a telegraph wire that transmits instructions

to those who’ve drowned in an automatic wind

while choking on state-licensed vision cloths

Hang the loose skin in a weeping museum

Use the smallest bones as buttons

Sew the buttons onto your face & pose in several helmets

Or collect the larger bones & make a stylish 4’ x 6’ cage

Plant the nerve-cords in window-boxes

Let them trail down like vines outside your new home

In the evenings

Use the spine as a flute to play

the soft nationalistic marches of the “bodies without organs” collective

Make tiny beasts out of the teeth & strands of black hair

Sew the animals into your stomach

Advertise your crimes as “the failings of a zoo”

Tack the two legs onto your own hips &

gallop through zones of agony

Now you’re a four-legged animal downed in the onslaught

You’re a weeping brute clogging the light-hole

in the eye of the sun

Theater Carnivale Days!

Photos from back in the daysof Theater Carnivale; a Punk Rock/Avante Garge/Vaudevillian theater group featuring, Stephen Holman, Aaron Osbourne, Johanna Went, Adam Tankell and myself.

Stephen and I performing on the BBC4 Tony Wilson Show in Manchester, England

Aaron, Johanna, Stephen, Toni, Adam

Stephen and me as Felicity the Butterfly and her agent Ricky the Roach on Bug Night

Me and Stephen on Birth Night

Adam, Johanna, Stephen, me & Aaron on Fish Night

Stephen, Aaron, Adam and myself on Fish Night

A Dark Boat Cries: Definition mysticism

Collage art and writing by Toni Oswald Copyright

WE are Prayers

Last piece cut up from Patti Smith's Dead Poppies on the album Radio Ethiopia

Photos of John Frusciante and myself by Dave Morgan 1998 All over writing Toni Oswald