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  }}</ref>.  Jim Shaw was describing his senior project as a student at the California Institute of the Arts, which took inspiration from ufology, specifically in part from Dr. O. L. and Miss Velma Jaggers.  
 
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<blockquote>MK: You did a booklet in the style of ''Awake''. There was also a golden altar--didn't that reference the altar at the Universal World Church, which is a strange charismatic church where they mix Christian and UFO beliefs?
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JS: Yes, the church run by Dr. Jaggers and Miss Velma--that was a part of it. When I went to a service there they had a booklet about meetings with UFOs; the motherships were supposed to be seraphim and the smaller ones cherubim. Watching them on TV every week certainly influenced me.</blockquote>
 
JS: Yes, the church run by Dr. Jaggers and Miss Velma--that was a part of it. When I went to a service there they had a booklet about meetings with UFOs; the motherships were supposed to be seraphim and the smaller ones cherubim. Watching them on TV every week certainly influenced me.</blockquote>

Revision as of 19:47, 2 April 2012

The following is an excerpt from an interview between Los Angeles based artists Mike Kelley and Jim Shaw. This dialog is reproduced identically in the books Mike Kelley: interviews, conversations, and chit-chat, 1986-2004[1] and Jim Shaw: everything must go, 1974-1999[2]. Jim Shaw was describing his senior project as a student at the California Institute of the Arts, which took inspiration from ufology, specifically in part from Dr. O. L. and Miss Velma Jaggers.



MK: You did a booklet in the style of Awake. There was also a golden altar--didn't that reference the altar at the Universal World Church, which is a strange charismatic church where they mix Christian and UFO beliefs?



JS: Yes, the church run by Dr. Jaggers and Miss Velma--that was a part of it. When I went to a service there they had a booklet about meetings with UFOs; the motherships were supposed to be seraphim and the smaller ones cherubim. Watching them on TV every week certainly influenced me.

References

  1. Kelley, Mike (2005). Mike Kelley: interviews, conversations, and chit-chat, 1986-2004. JRP/Ringier. pp. 279. ISBN 3905701006. Retrieved 2012-04-02. 
  2. Shaw, Jim (1999). Jim Shaw: everything must go, 1974-1999. Casino Luxembourg, Forum d'art contemporain. pp. 127. ISBN 2919893238. Retrieved 2012-04-02.