Cattlegrab was largely inspired by a poem I had different plans for,
"it's over like
the scratch cards of a
corrigall the
neighbor next to neighbor under
cement horizons. it's over like
cistern water dead moms in
the bed. made it yets leeching on
last warmth. it's over like
god's country bedded false notions
of motivation, just moving its
saturated tongue. it's over like
old men singing
the sigh of bird-dogs,
it's over like
who else gonna play the bad men?
killin this dirt. stacking up hell"
I had taken parts of my poem in hopes to start conveying a project about the violent and futile origins of the American Dream.
The subject here, is the father of the Deadwyler Girl, Yukon. He comes from a long lineage of slaughterhouse workers. Yukon had witnessed his boss from the slaughterhouse beat his wife to death. Resutling in two grouse hunters hired to take Yukon out, in favor to keep the murder hush.
The actual toil of making this was first editing the back cover, a picture of two men laying on their stomach with sniper rifles, found on wikicommons. I was fascinated with the color of the sky after a process of editing. After picking 3-4 colors, the sky, the grass and them, I edited the rest of the pages and finally utilized my drawing tablet to color in with the selected palette. I went ahead and colortoned, printed separate from text, then cut and glued the text, slapped on a teacher's gold foil star, before scanning and printing out the final version.