drooler

Drooler was sent to me by my associate Addie Broyles. As with all endangered arts, it is important to preserve as many specimens as possible, and I congratulate Addie for recognizing the significance of stickerloo and its crucial role in Austin's fine arts traditions.

This item is rather typical of what you see in the bumper galleries of Austin--it is not that this piece is shamefully poor so much as it is just not particularly inspired, nor was it challenging to produce. I do however find the subject matter amusing and touching personally, being a notorious drooler of diluvial proportions myself. This is a stickerloo after my own heart.

The primary observation I would like to make about this piece is that it is the first we have examined that is in the Slice & Splice style of stickerloo, in which the entire letter is sliced from the sticker with its top and bottom borders in tact. This requires an incredible amount of dexterity on behalf of the artist, who must match up these borders precisely when reassembling the sticker. No such precision is evident here, but this is not to hugely discredit this artisan, because the challenge at hand is truly an immense one. Due to printing inconsistencies, and indeed to the flexible nature of the material, it is a tall order to exactly match up borders with every splice, especially when using slices from more than one original sticker. My recommendation in these situations is to finish the stickerloo, then to cut a piece of border the precise length that you need, and to paste that over the piecemeal border, creating a new and uniform border.