Lance Letscher’s The Perfect Machine
at D. Berman gallery right now, will mess you up, something bad. By that, I mean, that the show will blow your mind—BOOM! It’ll leave you with a nose bleed and handful of goodtime. Ok, that might have been a bit much, but it is really good, simply said, I enjoyed the step up from the already super star work from last year’s show.

Official Release:

“The Perfect Machine features new collages and collaged objects by Lance Letscher at d berman gallery! Letscher’s colorful and geometric collages explore concepts of locomotion, technology, and the creative impulse. The exhibition is in conjunction with the publication of his imaginative children’s book also titled The Perfect Machine. “

Admittedly anxious upon hearing the title, The Perfect Machine, I was prepared for disappointment. Such a thing does not exist; Machines are not to be trusted. Until the first images for the show began to leak forth, I whole heartedly pictured a beautiful failure similar to the ‘Perpetual Motion Machine’ that Vonnegut wrote about in Hocus Pocus, a beautifully built shiny whirly gig that doesn’t live up the name, but non literary (literal) attempts have been made at building a perpetual motion machine to no avail, or at least that is what Detroit would have you believe.

However, Letscher’s Perfect Machine is actually a book, so in your face Big Three. Or it could have been that sweet ass scooter he put in the show, we don’t actually know. I didn’t get a chance to ask him because he was too busy stacking paper ($!) in the cigar smoke filled back office (cigars that were lit undoubtedly, with hundred dollar bills).

Weary that the bike was done half-assedly with vinyl or vehicle wrap like the few sickeningly uncommitted hot rods that graced our streets recently, I had to get a closer look. Letscher remained consistent and awesome in his execution of the moto-collage. If you are like Ol’ Uncle Sugar (Bricks), then grew up reading ‘Lowrider’ magazine and know a couple of things about car customization then you know how it could have played out. Letscher went high end road of Rat Fink by recreating the shell of the scooter with fiber glass and then laying dow his chunky soup style chip board collage. Sp–looosh.

You too could own The Perfect Machine (book):

“…A limited edition version of this book will also be available. All proceeds from it will benefit the Superhero Kids Fund, which supports the Children’s Blood and Cancer Center of Central Texas. Please visit www.superherokids.org for more information.”

Other Big Guns showed their support and admiration too:

Here we’ve captured Roi James stumping Shea Little with a humdinger of a Final Jeopardy question.

& D(a) Berman Dignitary: Bazooka Joe Phillips.

All in all, it was a great show from a great showman, but still these words lack what I felt like standing next to that scooter, deep down… in my junk:

Love Always,

Circus Gold