Elvis-Picasso is, to many, something of an enigma. While he has exhibited in many prestigious international galleries and on walls everywhere, he is hardly known at home. But his efforts on behalf of the very, very poor are well documented and are vividly illustrated in his major literary work, 'The Journals of Entropic Surrealism'. It is generally agreed that he has contributed to many major advancements in visual art, scientific endeavour and post-structuralist economics. It is understood that Elvis-Picasso's name has been put forward for the Nobel Prize in such disciplines as Art.

As a consequence of his prestige internationally, and his great contributions to arts, science and letters (he is the founder of the 'Half-Vector Bozon Society') and not less because of his infectious and inspirational personality, Elvis-Picasso has been invited to be the virtual arts consultant at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) laboratory at CERN in Switzerland. He has graciously accepted the honour, much to the great pleasure of the scientists working at CERN and the LHC. For a recent diary of Elvis-Picasso's unique contributions at the LHC please go to:

Sadly, Elvis Picasso had no family, so he designed this crest to permit himself a self-referential image that could provide himself with some modicum of identity, a wee sense of person - the sort of thing that comes automatically with birth to others well bred.

He has always identified with, felt passionately about, has always been one with the many disenfranchised, diasporadic, alienated and lost that social life in this socio-economic 'wonderworld' (Fragen Sie sich Welt*), has, in all its magnanimous, engineered construction, created.

The Elvis Picasso 'Coat of Alms', the badge of the unknown Elvis-Picasso diaspora, comprises a shield in the red and black livery of the Society of Anarchists, aborned by the golden sun, a homage to the indigenous people of Australia, plus a mantle by the same person who designed many others (a generalist, a cooperativist perhaps); also the helm or helmet, in this case that which was worn by 'Ned' Kelly, during the siege of Glenrowan; and all topped by the crest of a Kookaburra, once called the 'Laughing Jackass' by the colonial Australians; a native species, representative of all species subject of, or to, life's commercial plundering reality. As a whole this 'badge' is a symbol of loss and belonging, simultaneously, the real and the surreal.

(Edward "Ned" Kelly (3 June 1855 - 11 November 1880) was an Australian bushranger, and, to some, Elvis-Picasso for one, a folk hero for his defiance of the colonial authorities.)

(* Gratuitous, pompous and patronizing translation into German to add pretentious post-modern credibility!)