“Stand up to be seen; speak up to be heard; shut up to be appreciated.”
– Tom Creacy
Book and art © 2010-2024 by Tom Creacy. Book design and production by Bill Weber. or otherwise transmitted without the express permission of the artist. Contact the artist at www.creacy.com. Printed in USA. All rights reserved. This publication may not be reproduced, distributed, Front cover: Bipolar Bears. Circa 2010. Back cover: Jesus is on the Level. Circa 2013.
art and sculpture by Tom Creacy
AT THE PUN SHOP
Punsemblages from
unsemblage pun sculpture is made for fast relief of minor psychic pain. As the pun is the lowest form of humor, I assemble most 99-cent store junk, and closeouts. in advertising but quit due to corporatitis. I then started photo-
I BEGAN MY CAREER dumpster delights, graphing pun-ny situa-
MORE AND MORE I AM becoming a full-time artist, and I had my first public show in
Since then, as an independent marketing consultant to tions that I staged with people and objects. Poverty drove me to more straight jobs, from soap to rolling papers, but I always kept things creative on the side.
2010, actually selling two pun sculptures. As a kid I lived all over the USA and in a few foreign countries, observing the contradictions that were to give rise to my love of puns. Humor cures many ills, and I hope my work makes the day a little brighter for you and yours. small companies, I have been writing fiction (i.e., business plans for startup ventures).
Tom Creacy Punster in Chief
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Left-hand page: The artist tooting his own shoe horn at his first show. 2010.
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Bagel and Locks
Bipolar Bears
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Bootie Shakers
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Bowl
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Busdriver
12 Butteries
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Coca Koala
The Door is a Jar
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Hanna Bull Crossing the Alpos
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Jackhammer
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Jesus is on the Level
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Lemonaid
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Like a Goth to a Flame
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Moo Shoe Pork
Pairadox
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and Cancil Set
Pen
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Pipe Wrench
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Shoe Horn
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Swordshmanship
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Surely You Joust (Motorcycles)
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Time Flies
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Twocans
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31 Butteries 12 Coca Koala 13 Bagel and Locks 7 Bowl 10 Bipolar Bears 8 Bootie Shakers 9 Bus Driver 11 The Door is a Jar 14 Pairadocs 21 Pipe Wrench 23 Like a Goth to a Flame 19 Moo Shoe Pork 20 Lemonaid 18 Pen and Cancil Set 22 Shoe Horn 24 Swordshmanship 25 Time Flies 27 Jesus is on the Level 17 Hanna Bull Crossing the Alpos 15 Jackhammer 16 All sculptures circa 2013 Two Cans 28 Surely You Joust (Motorcycles) 26
INDEX
This page: blurry snapshots of the artist’s wares for sale in Greenwich Village in 2016.
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