Mystery Man Pics

Various Depictions of the 'Mystery Man'

Top to Bottom, Left to Right: Cold medicine box: found 11FEB00 at an AaGG promotional event in New York City by Sunny.
Matchbook: found left on the stage at AaGG Philly 6, 18MAR00. The matchbook and phone number come from a NYC restaurant in the East Village, '7A.' No association has been established with this restaurant.
Patterned Napkin: found at AaGG NYC 37(20JUN97) by Bongo Chan. Originally, the image appeared in blue ink, but, over time, the ink has strangely turned black.
Plain Napkin: Found in AaGG Chicago 4, 11FEB95, left on the bar.
Club Pass: Found in a backroom at AaGG Paris 13, by Jeff Dyer. A dead cicada was found on top of it.

This image shows one of Frajeka's study pages in its entirety. Many of Frajeka's papers were damaged in this way- at first it was assumed that this had been done by the fire that consumed Frajeka's gallery, in 1932. However, the nervous quality and lack of focus apparent in pages such as this one seem to match those of his later studies, done after the fire, in the waning and paranoid years preceding his death, in 1935.

A closer view shows Frajeka's breakdown of the pictograms on the cone. The element in the rectangle, on the left side of this view, depicts the phrase: "The Darkness becomes sanctuary, waiting return to the Light." The portion just beneath this is translated as: "Remain hidden travel west." Note Frajeka's explanation for the "hidden" glyph: a man lying under a rock. In the lower right, in a box, Frajeka drew the glyphs for the Cardinal Points: West, East, North, and South.

A close up view of the entire message. It is unclear, but there appears to have been at least two versions of this message, on two separate cones. The major differences being the presence of decorative separations on one and the rectangular separation of the "Darkness becomes sanctuary" message. The writing below the image reads: "Et noctem flammis funalia vincunt." And torches disperse the darkness with their flames."