Walking through the city of San Francisco at the end of the 70's, I was struck by an
antique shop. When I entered, I found a box full of rubber stamps. They had many
types, each cost between one dollar and 50 cents. I went crazy. They were all
wonderful. I wanted to buy as many as I could.
Despite my enthusiasm, I chose them carefully. I selected those I could use to
build scenes, to communicate a parody. I chose the ones that might have some
comic potential, those that could be used to develop a visual arrangement to
convey something sarcastic and witty. More than what the seal represented, I saw
them as visual tools. The key idea was to take advantage of the property of repetitionawarded by the printed image and change its meaning.
