ART AND THE BOUNCY BANKER: portraits of bankers

The Bruxist Collective's take on Art and (as Alfred Jarry might put it) P'finance.

A numerically dyslexic artist (and reluctant consumer) shares his dearth of financial wisdom and resulting frustrations with his Bank Manager. Read personal letters from the elusive Art to his even more elusive Bank Manager. See a comic rendition of a Day In The Life Of The Bouncy Banker. Art struggles to make sense of the senseless as the Authorities of Finance wobble but never quite fall down. Full of hot air they float above it all! When they bounce it is with impunity! Why are there no Remorseful Bankers? Can Art and Finance ever coexist? Do you have a Blue Chip on your shoulder?

When bankers get together they talk about Art. When artists get together they talk about money. Oscar Wilde

Sunday, September 6, 2009

Letter to the Bank #30

Dear BM,

You are so elusive. We’ve been working together for years and yet I still do not have a sense of what you look like. I’ve asked before and now ask again: can we get together for a drink some time, or are you still mad at me for piling up all my possessions outside your bank? I did this on good faith to try and fulfill, honor, my collateralized debt obligations! Anyway I didn’t mean to bring up a sore point. Let us let bygones be bygones. Let us rekindle our relationship once more and try and give it a little more personal zap.

You know how you hear voices on the radio and begin to imagine the faces behind those voices? I find myself receiving your bank statements (I have not seen any of your more personalized letters in I don’t know how long) and picturing you. I’ll try to bang out some portraits, quick paintings that capture how I see you in my imagination. It’ll be fun.

Yours sincerely,

KC

PS—Here is another of those mortgage offers. What do you think? Should I go for it? I tried Googleing info about the company and discovered they and HUD are not one and the same. Indeed they’d received a couple of highly negative reviews. I guess I just answered my own question. Maybe I should have more faith in my own expertise and also trust those gut feelings.