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I didn't know that Viggo used to date Exene. That's a trip. I guess I need to google her and see what she's up to. Wow, apparently they were married and have a son together.

this is a trip, a list of all his works:

Bibliography
Includes but is not limited to:

Ten Last Night (1993), his first collection of poetry;

Recent Forgeries (1998), ISBN 1-889195-32-4, 5th Edition, documents Viggo's first solo exhibition and includes a CD with music and spoken-word poetry. Introduction by Dennis Hopper;

Errant Vine (2000), limited edition booklet of an exhibit at the Robert Mann Gallery. Only about 300 were published at the time of the exhibition so it is a very rare book;

Hole in the Sun (2002, ISBN 0-9721436-1-0), color and black and white photographs of a back yard swimming pool;

SignLanguage (2002 ISBN 1-889195-49-9), a catalog from an exhibition of his works, combining photographs, paintings, and poetry into a multimedia diary of his time in New Zealand while filming The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring;

Coincidence of Memory (2002, ISBN 0-9721436-0-2 Third Edition, in this book, the artist combines photographs, paintings, and poems that cover his artistic output from 1978 to 2002;

Mo Te Upoko-o-te-ika/For Wellington (2003), ISBN 0-9721436-8-8, a book to accompany the joint exhibitions at Massey University and the Wellington City Gallery during the premiere of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King;

45301 (2003), ISBN 0-9721436-3-7, Abstract images, fragments and phrases from poems create this photography book. Many of the photographs were shot during travels to Morocco, Cuba, and the northern plains of the United States;

Un hueco en el sol (2003), a small booklet was published to accompany the exhibition "Un hueco en el sol" at the Fototeca de Cuba in Havana. In Spanish;

Miyelo (2003), ISBN 0-9721436-7-X), a series of panoramic photographs of a Lakota Ghost Dance. It also tells about the events leading up to the massacre at Wounded Knee;

The Horse is Good (2004), ISBN 0-9747078-1-3, a photography book partly shot during his work on the film Hidalgo about horses as partners, teachers, and fellow travelers. Images from Morocco, South Dakota, Montana, California, Iceland, New Zealand, Denmark, Brazil, Argentina.

With part of his earnings from The Lord of the Rings, he founded the Perceval Press publishing house — named for the knight from the legend of King Arthur — to help other artists by publishing avant-garde works that might not find a home in more traditional publishing venues.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viggo_Mortensen

all this came from Wikipedia and it says that some of the paintings in "A Perfect Murder" were his.What a renaissance man...

Apparently Exene is writing and doing visual art too:
In 2005, her journals and mixed media collages were exhibited in a one-person exhibition titled America the Beautiful at the Santa Monica Museum of Art. The exhibit was curated by Kristine McKenna and Michael Duncan. An expanded version of the exhibition traveled to DCKT Contemporary in New York in January, 2006. The exhibition featured a selection of journals from the collection of approximately 100 that Cervenka has completed over the past thirty plus years, as well as eighteen collages. Cervenka's journals combine rough drafts of songs and personal reflections rendered in a baroque calligraphic script with photographs, drawings and scraps of ephemera found while traveling as a musician. Similarly, the collages are created from found materials to form an interpretative composite portrait of the country she's come to know through her life experiences on the road. DCKT Contemporary continues to represent her artwork.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exene_Cervenka