This (still in progress) text-art series riffs on Ed Ruscha’s News, Mews, Pews, Brews, Stews & Dues, flipping the geographic lens: where Ruscha explored Britain through an American eye, this series peers at the United States through a British one. A set of rhyming, epigrammatic word-portraits — Luck, Buck, Fuck — rendered in graphite and glitched by layers of asemic and constrained asemic writing. The legible becomes partial. Meaning stutters.
In place of British mushy peas and tea (Ruscha’s printing ink of choice), this work extracts colour from the linguistic detritus of Trump’s 2025 Executive Orders & Proclamations , using Python to convert presidential prose into a palette. Buried in each piece are broken images sourced from an abandoned online archive of Ruscha’s original series — a quiet memento mori for political legacy, the web, and America’s recurring fondness for collapse.
EO 14233: Establishment of the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and United States Digital Asset Stockpile
Proclamation 10887 of January 20, 2025. Granting Pardons and Commutation of Sentences for Certain Offenses Relating to the Events at or Near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021
EO 14160: Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship
“For the purpose of this order, the term "digital asset" refers to any digital representation of value that is recorded on a distributed ledger”.