“Something wonderful is happening here. The world is being changed,” Edward “Ted” Cornell says. The artist is talking trash: not in-your-face dissing, and not the stuff of yard sales, but the junk unworthy even of dragging to the dump.
February 2007
Rural Legends
Certain stories, no matter how outlandish, acquire a patina of truth if repeated often enough. Urban legends cajole us into believing that six-foot alligators patrol the sewer pipes beneath Times Square (they don’t), and that “Mikey,” of Life cereal commercial fame, died after swilling Pop Rocks and soda pop (he didn’t).









