UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, October 28, 1996
5A
Squinting reveals nothing
Local artists work together to create imageless 3-D art
By Liz Musser
Kansan staff writer
Stare all day. Although it may look like the Magic Eye pictures sold in malls, there is no hidden image in this piece of art.
"In everyday stereograms, one sees maybe a dolphin, a heart or a word," said local artist Roger Holden. "But here, we see depth for depth's sake."
Holden is one of the artists whose collaborative work with William S. Burrows is on display in the Ports of Entry, William S. Burrows and the Arts exhibition that opened Saturday at the Spencer Museum of Art. The untitled stereogram will hang alongside Burrows' other collaborative works with famous artists such as Keith Haring and David Bradshaw.
Roger Holden / CONTRIBUTED ART
Burroughs has lived in Lawrence for about 15 years. Introduced to Burroughs in 1988, Holden said that he and Burroughs often discussed work that Holden was doing with 21st Century Sound and Vision Inc., a small, Lawrence studio, located at 123 W. Eighth St., that researches and devel-
roger Holden, local artist has his untidied stereogram on display in a new exhibit at The Spencer Museum of Art, which opened on Saturday.
ops innovative audio-visual technologies. "We talked a lot about 3-D research." Holden said. "It seemed right to explore what we could do together."
Holden and Burroughs' piece combined Holden's technological capabilities with
Burroughs' "cut-up" method of art. The method involves creating juxtapositions through such means as clipping newspapers and magazines apart and then putting the pieces back together in random order.
For the collaboration, Burroughs chose samples of his cut-ups and then gave them to Holden. Holden then scanned the image into his computer and processed the image into a random 3-D pattern.
"What is revealed is an intricate 3-D landscape that is created by the cut-up process," Holden said.
Steve Goddard, curator of prints and drawings at Spencer Museum of Art, said that Holden's collaboration with Burroughs was a good example of how Burroughs has continued to stay involved with contemporary trends in art.
"It's a very interesting piece that shows Burroughs' relevance in the cyber-punk world of computer art," Goddard said. "His openness in collaboration with other artists demonstrates how he accepts what is unfolding at the moment."
Although creating the piece was a very demanding seven-month process, Holden said he enjoyed working with Burroughs.
Holden said that he and Burroughs had produced a total of 15 different stereograms together. The latest was completed last month, he said.
The Ports of Entry exhibit will run through Jan. 5.
Speaker encourages more action by NAACP to meet difficult times
By Nicholas C. Charalambous
Kansan staff writer
The tactics of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People must change to meet the challenges of a more hostile political environment, said the executive director of a national fair housing organization, at the end of the NAACP's 53rd state conference Saturday.
Edythe Flemings Hall of National Neighbors, Inc., said the Reagan era's focus on individual profit and self interest had turned the United States away from the goal of national and racial harmony.
Now the national mood is to roll back programs such as affirmative action and cut funding and dismantle the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Hall said. These programs are said to be eating away at the historical advantages enjoyed by some Americans.
Welfare reform marks a devolution based
on the survival of the fittest, she said.
"The targets are the poor, the needy, the frail and the young, those who are unaware and those who don't care." Hall told more than 80 people at the Freedom Fund Awards banquet at the Kausaa Union Ballroom. "We must set an example of self-help and self-determination that others must follow."
The NAACP must step up action to make the government comply with fair lending laws, the Community Reinvestment Act, and the Fair Housing Act, which have never been fully enforced, Hall said.
The Lawrence chapter of the NAACP was the host of the two-day conference. The theme was "Marching United Toward the 21st Century."
Hall bemoaned the NAACP's constantly declining membership because the organization was the best example of African-American power that existed today. In the past, people were willing to
risk their lives to attend meetings, Hall said. Now, some children do not even know what NAACP stands for, much less would they be willing to spend a day working on a project or program.
"We must move forward from this day in a new direction. Let's stop all the division and take up unity." Hall said.
Louisa Fletcher, president of the conference, said that attendance had increased, especially among young people. Representatives from 14 of Kansas' 22 chapters were present.
"This was a beginning," Fletcher said. "I feel there is a greater coming together of branches."
Samuel Adams, associate professor of journalism and master of ceremonies for the banquet, said that the NAACP's new national leadership, under former U.S. Congressman Kwesi Mfume, had provided a boost. The organization is no longer in debt.
Workers at Blimpie's face thirsty robber
The last customer at Blimpile on Thursday left with a beverage and a bag of cash.
By Andrea Albright Kansan staff writer
Just after 10 p.m., Melissa Nairn, Lawrence High School junior, and Kelly Little, Hot Springs, Ark, sophomore, were closing Blimpie Subs and Salads, 2540 Iowa St., when a man slipped through the door that had not been adequately locked by Nairn.
The women could only offer the man a beverage because they had already put most of the food away.
"He was kind of fidgety," Nairn said. "But he ordered a drink."
The man filled his cup, returned to the register and asked the women for the money in the drawer.
"He said. 'Would you like to empty out the register for me?' Nairn said.
Nairn told him the drawer was empty, but the man did not believe her. She then showed him the empty drawer. The man then took the bag containing the money, she said.
"He got away with close to $600," Nairn said.
Little said that the man did not show any type of weapon, but that he kept his hand in his pockets. Noises that were coming from his pockets led Little to believe that the man might have a gun in a holster.
"There were clicking noises," Little said. "It kind of sounded like Velcro."
Little said that the man had been in the store before. Several nights before the robbery, Little said the man had ordered a sandwich, but suddenly left when he saw someone coming into the restaurant.
"When he saw headlights he ran," Little said. "The boss said he had seen him around the area."
Both women helped Lawrence police produce a composite sketch of the suspect who is described as a black male in his early 20's, about six feet tall with a thin build. During the robbery, the man wore a blue bandanna on his head with a black baseball cap over it.
Little said she had no time to be afraid because she was amazed that the man had even gotten through the door. She said she will be more cautious in the future.
"It's nerve-wracking to be working at night," Little said. "I'm going to make sure everything's locked.
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