Perforated faux stamp series – signed 1993/1994. Perforated with an antique pin-hole perforator. 8.5 x 11. Clean, kept archived (see photos). Higgins III was born in Racine, Wisconsin on November 10, 1949 and grew up outside of Chicago. He studied painting and printmaking at Western Michigan University and the University of Colorado. In 1975 he produced artistamp sheets via offset lithography, and some of his work was featured in James Felter’s. Exhibition, “Artists’ Stamps and Stamp Images” in 1976 at Simon Fraser University. Often the images for his stamps are taken from a painting. The image from the painting is photographed, reduced and then printed as the stamp. Higgins’ country represented on the stamps is known as “Doo Da, ” and his logo is a “wingnut” – a hardware nut i. A nut and a bolt with wings on it. The word “wingnut” in English is slang for someone who is wacky, or slightly crazy. Many of Higgins’ paintings and stamps have this sense of humor about them with subjects such as fishing lures and the ubiquitous wingnut logo. (via mailartists at wordpress dot com).