Alison Knowles, Onion Skin Print and Xerox works

(1) Three Songs (I), Franklin Furnace Dec. 20. 1977 8 pm. Onion skin blueprint copy on vellum sheet, 21.5 x 11.5 cm. Signed in pencil in lower left margin. The work was produced by running real onions through a blueprint machine. The resulting image was perceived as a score to make music. This particular Onion Skin song was presented during an Artists Reading at Franklin Furnace, where it was 'played' by violinist Malcolm Goldstein. In a Village Voice review Tom Johnson noted that he found the Onion Skin interpretation rather boring compared to Goldstein's 10-minute interpretation of two old shoelaces which had also been run through the blueprint machine.

(2) Two colour xerox works, 28 x 21 cm, undated and unsigned, probably mid 1970s, printed on an early photocopier. One print may refer to Knowles famous project 'Identical Lunch', a performance of eating the same lunch everyday for years. It seems to show a tuna fish sandwich on wheat toast with lettuce, and a glass of buttermilk. Striking set of original works by the great Fluxus pioneer Knowles. (total 3)