the ho!d - Haze/april 2000

PhotoShop Masturbation
Eve's Clock, A Self-Portrait

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Haze McElhenny

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Haze reads
Postcard 5
at
the spoken ho!d

PostCards From PittsBurgh - #6
Pittsburgh University halls are carved,
not of oak or cherry, but of FL
Wright suburban day dreams.

Hockney nightmares

and modern institutionalism.
My stepson lives here, learns here.
Grows here in the sterile locked mouth
of student life. Governed by the bolts
on doors. Secured by hall passes
and more monitors. The lobby

is cheaply drawn and crowded
as we wait with din growing
large-mouthed until
Darren drips into width

of wide contemporary chairs.
Feet danglingling over arms,
face pale. Drawn
in post post-modern cool-
Cool
consumed

by attitude.
The attitude of chill.

His father draws in-
tense. They smile and talk
of liking this florescent life.
Antiseptic
alcohol-bled reality pressed
between books and parties.

More parties. More detailed
talk of panties
Invades
The Ritual Male Bonding
more like back slapping

I study Darren.
Watch his father.
More like father-More
like son. More like reflections
of the same, each growing-
becomes the other.
to the other,
a compliment,
home grown.

CopyRight Haze McElhenny 2000
Excerpted from "PostCards"
to be released...
when I get around to it.

Artist's Bio
      Mentored since the age of 14, by reknowned artist Randolf Rabenold, Haze McElhenny is a professional artist and practicing poet for more than 18 years. She lists her muses as nature, love and the avant-garde addiction and has been influenced heavily by VanGogh, Cezanne, and Matisse. Her art history education continues under a self-study program. Haze's artwork is part of the permanent collection at legends TRADITIONS & friends, a gift gallery in Bethlehem Pennsylvania and featured in a solo exhibition at the Impecunious Gallery in Kent, Ohio through January 31st, 2000.
     "Summer Dreams" ( a digital rendering by Haze) is currently on display in Malaga Spain at MAC21(1999 and 2000). In April of 1999 She was invited to show at Bennale Internazionale Dell Arte Contemporania in Florence Italy. Financial restrictions prohibitted the artist from showing, but she has been invited back for 2002. Haze plans to attend and display her work at this prestigious international event.
     Haze resides in Bethlehem, PA with her husband, photographer Don Cerrato. Her artwork, illustrations, and poetry have been published at WebStatic, Cherry Sucker, Rogue Scholars, Wilmington Blues, A Writers Choice, The Ho!d, MoonDance and Thunder Sandwich.

For more on the muse, etc...Check out:
Poetry On Black Vinyl
The Art Of Being
Pics of Haze
e-mail Haze
Visit Haze's Arcipelago Gallery Of Cool Stuff
Haze also designs the ho!d's t-shirts, mugs and mousepads and are available at the The Ho!d's Arsenal Of Cool Stuff!

Haze McElhenny
524 S Bergen Street
Bethlehem, PA 18015
Phone 610-868-5097

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