artist: Holly Crawford
Was in a short term foster care relationship with critic and curator Peter Frank. Now looking for a permanent home. He wrote:"Narrative (Re Title): It defininetly has a personality, one that broadcasts across the room. But, there is was, all by itself, propped up, in the bathroom, as if it had misbehaved, or as if its expansive nature threatened to obscure all the others! Thus isolated, it seems the runt of the litter, as it were. With the word 'runt,' my mind jumped to the German word 'Runtenpfenning,' which (as opposed to the later term 'Reichspfenning') appeared early in the coinage of the Weimar Republic. Given the prevalence of the stamps in the "source pile' form the Weimar Germany, the macaronic (i.e. cross-lingual pun) seemed apposite. Still does.--Peter Frank" Assumptions are frequently made about someones cultural and genetic background. Classifications and labels abound. Many are incorrect. This case was not from a German stamp, but does it make any difference? They are from the marks from some stamp. Maybe the engraver was German. I do not know. --10.2.05
Painting
Completed in: 2003
12 x 12 inches
Near or in New York, NY / United States





