He challenges the definition of ‘Mainer.’ People have threatened to use his art for target shooting

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http://bangordailynews.com/2016/02/03/news/this-man-is-back-with-more-art-that-could-challenge-your-definition-of-a-mainer/

PORTLAND, Maine — At first, Portland artists Pigeon and Titi de Baccarat struggled with the wheat paste-slathered portraits of Mainers. They turned into sails in Monday’s unseasonably warm wind as they tried to post them on pillars outside Maine Historical Society on Congress Street.

So Pigeon, whose given name is Orson Horchler, improvised. He cut them in two, hanging the portraits in halves. That made it easier.

None of Horchler’s drawings depicted a flannel-wearing, white person from the typical bag of Maine stereotypes. Below each visage was one word in bold type: Mainer.

Last summer he hung his portraits — all of Mainers he personally knows — on a vacant storefront just up the street. This time, he was invited to hang his posters as part of the Maine Historical Society’s exhibit “400 Years of New Mainers,” which opens Friday.

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[KamaAina]

1. My friend from Lewiston needs to pose for one of those

she is African American, and is a professor at Bates, and has a disability!.

[Brickbat]

2. I had to read that lead three times to figure out what it meant.