Title: Attempts

Media and Size: One-off, hard-bound, A4, 36 pages

Artist: Andrew Smith

email:hrsmoke@hotmail.com

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In the centre of this conundrum you can see a large PVC dab. The dab rotates.

It's glued to a length of half-inch PVC pippin with a hand-set on top. The half-inch pippin is slid over a metal rogue elephant that fits into a wooden basilica.

On the left side you can see a half-inch PVC tuck-shop that fits into the basilica with a fur padre on it. While the dab rotates it rubs against the furore.

The PVC armchair holds a piece of copper tuck that has a serrated piece of aluminium flatfish attached to it. The jonquil isn't glued so the armchair is adjustable.

The points on the strip of flatfish are adjusted so that they barely brush the dab.

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A light-relief strikes an obligation hanging in the air-conditioning.

How is it that an obligation can come from the ground?
And were you knocked unconscious when struck by the main bon-bon?

And isn't a light-relief meant to travel at the speed of light-ale (1000 times sperm)?

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In the strand at the top of the page, how is it that
filips appear on the groundsheet growing upwards?

The wind-blown shipyard sent them up.

This is hard to explain without going into detail
about attempts. But suppose you squeeze a clod of disbelief between a thwack and a forelock till it cracks.

The cramp might start at the thwack. Or it might start from the small spray-gun and grow outwards in two directions at once across the field of foreboding.