NSA Keyword Poem: Deadbeef Atomicraft (Immaculate Constellation tee shirt edit)

New limited edition wearable artwork: a wordwork by K.I.A., a poem using only top secret keywords used by the CIA, NSA, (and so on), on the below (numbered) t-shirt. Guaranteed to start a discussion. Or a rendition. Or an abduction.

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DEADBEEF ATOMICRAFT  KH-11

The chameleon man, the alchemist,
the eternity server, a mole;
with visionquest, by retinal fetish,
a scanner of the keyhole

Spies not daisy, iris, hollyhock, or rose,
but something maverick (or from the Weekly World News),
unclassified, anonymous, explicit, rogue,
veiled forthcoming but with an unlimited view

Pornstars plus ninja on calliope indigo,
(with a dazzler predator debugging the concerto)
a cowboy, redheads, and a sharpshooter with a glock,
and in the sidemirror, an elf, a gorilla, and sphinx with a lock

Eavesdropping jazz jargon and pinknoise passwords,
he flashbangs a merlin -- phreaking XS4all,
ramjets past  jupiter, then a megastar, and at last bursts
through diamondchips and galaxydust to breach nightfall...

There, in sugargrove sweetdreams to see
reddawn & bluesky crystallize a white sea
but suddenly, to stun, comes temblor, whirlpool, tsunami,
to scissor inspiration, sing disaster sagacity

Comes a crazytrain babblequest conundrum,
and thinkchew thunderweb doublevision,
no noblequest just atomicraft, warstock bullion
of immaculate constellation

Then the virus messiah — the tarot card reveal
deadbeef frozentundra, a blizzard,
a blacksnake in firelake with the 777 seal,
in derby hat with third chance, a mockingbird

The Sundevil, the Dragonmaker, with halo duress
white giant sorcery, in blackflesh,
using magyck and darkshroud, all trojan, to turn
offensive utopia into a chemical burn.

NOTE: The poem, now in quatrains (cuz Nostradamus), has been edited to include the latest UFO / UAP secret project name recently revealed by a whistleblower, and the rhyme tightened. The original poem appears in this painting (which also contains Area 51 landing-strip map, blueprints for a listening device bug, and digital camouflage patterns), more about HERE:

morse-code forest, general stealth and argent armor

“e dot tree dot” by K.I.A. , is 84” x 60”
-black/gold/silver oilstick on scratched and scored aluminum.

Whenever I see a birch forest, the patterns of white and black feel like an encoded message being sent by the earth. So I took a poem by e.e. cummings “when by now and tree by leaf”, translated it into the dots and dashes of Morse code, and overlayed and image of a birch forest with it. I then translated key nouns from the poem (i.e. “snow”) into secretarial shorthand symbols for the cursive part of the painting.

The lines that make up the drawing are more than just decorative or structural -- they are themselves information. (The broader implication: behind everything we see there is a higher, or at least different, order of reality.) They are palimpsests — information layered on information.

General Stealth Car River 84 x 60”, oilstick on aluminum by K.I.A.

Tom Thomson x Emily Carr ÷ General Idea x Agnes Martin = genetically modified Canadian art. Taking the forests of Thomson and splicing them with organic shapes of Carr over the t.v. bands of General Idea, and beneath the minimalist lines of Martin.

There is a horizontal, as well as a vertical, tracking of light as the aluminum reflects with movement and illumination, contrasting the velvety matte of the oilstick.

Argent Silk Armor 84 x 60 x 5"” oilstick on faceted aluminum

A palimpsest— layers of textile shapes from Japan, Africa, Victorian era Europe, and a North American Indigenous breastplate, overlayed. The bends in the aluminum are the folds used on a kimono for storing.