Mother Dwarf a.k.a. Florence E. Smith & Steven B. Smith

Mother Dwarf  Florence E. Smith (1926 - 2005)

collage assemblage mixed media fairy tale artst
"Florence E. Smith, a tall woman known in art circles as Mother Dwarf, came from Las Vegas to join her son, Smith, at his insistence when she was widowed in 1990. A former ceramist and quilter, she does assemblage art. Her stamp is brightly appealing narrative pieces with fairy tale themes." Helen Cullinan - The Cleveland Plain Dealer - 9.30.1993

Steven B. Smith (9 March 1946 / Wallace Idaho / 6' 3" / 181)

1950s - farm boy, cow milker, chicken/rabbit/hog waste remover, hod carrier

1960s - paper boy, car thief, house wrecker, sailor, electronics technician, poet, USNA midshipman, artist, hippie, life insurance, salesman, husband

1970s - chemist, armed robber, prison cook, bankrupt, graphic arts salesman, avant-garde theatre manager, bethlehem steel extraman, college graduate, newspaper film/music critic, milkman, women's shoe salesman, divorced, computer operator, drug dealer, carnival laborer, adulterer, church janitor

1980s - programmer analyst, drunk, condo owner, publisher/editor, celibate

1990s - near dead, sober, european traveler

2000s - unemployed,  agent of chaos

go thee, and suffer less 
the church of not quite so much pain & suffering
http://www.agentofchaos.com

the irreverend smith presiding

art & prose: Three Lab Rats in Admit2, No. 8, November 2005.

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