Shell Games & Ponzi Schemes

<p><em style=color: rgba(7 7 7 1)>Shell Games & Ponzi Schemes</em><span style=color: rgba(7 7 7 1)> is a collection of poems and images that span fine art and outsider art. It is a subversive expression against paradigms of violence by turns whimsical and obscene angry and irreverent refined and brutalist.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(7 7 7 1)>This is a trade version of the limited edition of 50 copies of </span><em style=color: rgba(7 7 7 1)>Shell Games & Ponzi Schemes</em><span style=color: rgba(7 7 7 1)> produced between June 2021 and April 2022 in Chiapas Mexico with an all-manual process including silkscreen printing hand-coloring and Japanese-style hand-sewn stab binding.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(7 7 7 1)>Poems by Scott Ezell with images by Andrew Long. </span><span style=color: rgba(7 7 7 1)>The poems were typed on an Olivetti manual typewriter in San Diego in the spring of 2020; the images were made in response to the poems during the following year on the road in Turkey and in Kiev Ukraine.</span></p><p></p><p>This edition includes a scan of the original typer roll made from sheets of packing paper taped together on which the poems of part II were written.</p>