In the summer of
1995 a passion for office supplies and an
obsession for cheap pencil case stencils
came together into Guerilla Notebook Art.
Think of these as propaganda posters from
a high school revolutionary, stencilled
onto sheets of lined paper or etched into
the back page of a civics textbook.
The use of stencils limits the vocabulary
to a few simple icons, these icons are recombined
to sugguest multiple meanings. The anvil
can symbolize both strength in the face
of adversity and imminent destruction from
above.
The targets of this pencil-case revolution
are common foes from adolescent experience;
repressed anger, sexual frustration and
authority of any kind.
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