Latex paint, aluminium sign.
24in x 30in.
Dairy Products Gone Bad
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Sand-dunes
Milk-fed sad-eyed ranch-style law-abiding boob-tubes
Rear-ended self-loathing
Techno-Industrial L.S.D-inspired so-called counter-culture
Dumb-founded snot-nosed Blow-hard rip-offs
God-damn
Well-known Banty-roosting cuddly-vicious super-girl
Bitter-sweet Under-ground
Hand-over-hand
Hup-two-three-four Nine-to-five F-f-fuzzy
Well-adjusted Ten-year-old Co-dependant Pudding-head
Self-delusional starry-eyed flare-ups
Middle-class Halo-Halo Saint-hood
What-have-you set-backs
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Milk-Rear Techno-Dumb God-Well Bitter-Hand Hup-Well Self-Middle
Fed-Ended Industrial-Founded Damn-Known Sweet-Over Two-Adjusted Delusional-Class
Have-sad Self-L.S.D Snot-Banty Under-Hand Three-Ten Starry-Halo
You-Eyed Loathing-Inspired Nosed-Roosting Ground-Four Year-Eyed Halo-Set
Ranch-So Blow-Cuddly Nine-Old Flare-Saint
Back-Style Called-Hard Vicious-to Co-Ups
Hood-Law Counter-Rip Super-five
Dependant-Abiding Culture-Girl F-Pudding
Boob-F Head-Tube
Fuzzy
Dairy products gone bad delves into the intersection of transcription and constraint, building on central themes found in early Oulipian works. This work was created from an exclusive selection of hyphenated words from The R. Crumb Coffee Table Art Book. Dairy Products gone bad imposes a structural constraint by censoring all words without hyphens.
This constraint becomes more than just a formal experiment—it acts as a visual and linguistic interruption, a refusal to smooth over meaning. In the context of responding to Robert Crumb, whose work is saturated with racial and gendered tension, these dashes take on a new role. They function as a censor bar, highlighting the unspeakable or problematic elements in Crumb’s imagery (both his critique and complicity in systems of misogyny and racism). By only allowing hyphenated words, Dairy products gone bad explores language as fractured, contingent, and encoded with silence, much like Crumb’s contradictory position as both an outcast and participant in the social violences he depicts.