A “Pop” event whose purpose ostensibly was not publicity but “stunt.” Sissor initiators of the BLINK stencil, Alison Knowles, George Brecht and Robert Watts took an increasingly anonymous role in the manufacture and assembling of BLINK products. BLINK postage stamps, cigarettes, kerchiefs, bridal photo, undies, “Thrift Table,” pickings from Pasadena junk shops were Nelson additions to the New Yorkers’ shipment of pus-colored square canvases, bedspread, bathing suit, sweatshirt and harem pillow stenciled BLINK. Anonymity was available to all by a BLINK stamping service. The whiff of apocalypticism sent up by this stunt seemed quite fragrant in comparison with the realities of digit dialing and zip codes.
—Rosalind G. Wholden
Marcel Duchamp, “Network of Stoppages,” oil on canvas, 58x78½", 1914 (damaged.) (Private Collection, New York.) Color Courtesy the Pasadena Art Museum.
December 1963
VOL. 2, NO. 6
