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TitleStrange Angel — ...
Author
PublisherFree City Collective
PlaceSan Francisco
Year
Date 110/1/1967
Date 2n.d., ca.
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MediumBroadsheet
DimensionLegal
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CatalogFC-1-002b
CollectionSOLA-o; SS-o (MH)
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FC-1-002b
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Abstract
This striking and highly economical sheet functions less as a news item or argument than as a visionary invocation. At its center is a purple line drawing of a triple-faced, bearded figure—part saint, prophet, trickster, and street oracle—floating in a large field of textured paper. Around the margins runs a ring of incantatory text: “STRANGE ANGEL,” “YOU’RE AS HOLY AS YOU’LL EVER BE,” “FREE NOW, WHY NOT?,” “LET IT BURN,” “LET IT RUN,” “LET IT GO,” and “GROUND YOU STAND ON IS LIBERATED TERRITORY.” Other phrases—“HOLY IS A PEACOCK MIND,” “ANGEL IS A STATE OF GRACE,” and “ANGEL KARMA IS A COAT OF STARS”—give the piece the air of queer mysticism, absurdist prophecy, and countercultural mantra. Spare, talismanic, and theatrical, the sheet reads as a kind of portable street icon, fusing underground print aesthetics with a rhetoric of liberation, psychic unbinding, and transformed social being.
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Strange Angel — You're As Holy As You'll Ever Be — If You're Not 

Free Now, Why Not? — Who's Got Your String — Let It Burn — Let It Run — Let It Go — Holy Is A Peacock 

Mind — Angel Is A State Of Grace — Angel Karma Is A Coat Of Stars — The

Ground You Stand On Is Liberated Territory — Hermaphroditic Deities Fuck Forever — Free — Free — Free

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