"In this issue of briX we decided to invoke the adage: 'A picture is worth a thousand words,'" wrote Guest Editor Christopher R. Young. "To do so we changed the magazine format to that of a series of postcards to be packaged as a unit in the form of a brick. This not only provided a workable and convenient format, it also gave us a clever visual pun, a unifying theme to rally our imaginative energies around."
(Does everything, even art, have a tinge of militancy in Flint, where it takes an "art army" to "rally" our imagination?)
Here are a few samples from the collection that definitely capture the mood and feel of Flint in the midst of its free fall.
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Kenneth A. Hannon, Flint, From the series Greetings from Flint, 1988 |
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Madeleine Barkey, Flushing, Untitled, 1988 |
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Kenneth A. Hannon, Flint, From the series Greetings from Flint, 1988 |
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Pat Keating, Grand Blanc, Fish: It's only art, 1988 UPDATE: A photo of the elusive briX Magazine, courtesy of Tim "East Side" Lane. |