"Chopper Blues" is the apex of a unique evolution: it grows from
the script of a mixed media introduction performed live for a body
of viscerally intense woodcuts, drawings and paintings first
exhibited in East Texas at the Tyler Museum of Art and last honored
at the Marine Corps Museum in San Diego, California. Musician,
painter, printer, sculptor and maturing poet, Jones sustained the
experience which made both these images and this text necessary
during the three years he served the Marine Corps, almost all of it
as Platoon Commander, Company C, 1st Battalion, 7th Marines, this
enlistment culminating in his '65-'66 Vietnam duty tour and his
combat decoration, the Silver Star.
These poems and prose were originally written to accompany the
"Vietnam Suite," 40, 38" x 50 inch multimedia works on paper and an
accompanying performance piece entitled "Chopper Blues." However,
this limited print edition has been expanded to include drawings
from Jones' sketchbook from his time in country, Vietnam,
1965--1966, as well as images from the "Vietnam Suite" and woodcuts
from a recent publication, "The Bear Went Over the Mountain,
"co-written with a Vietnamese Artist from Hanoi, Dinh Viet Luc.
Also included in this spectacular collection are never before
published photographs of Jones's tour in Vietnam, photographs of
villages and schools that vanished immediately after the camera's
flash. Finally, included in this limited printing is a cd of the
performance piece, featuring a reading of the poems and songs from
the book with original and traditional music performed by the
artist and friends.
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