Abstract forms and spatial experience
The function of copying or transcription
The play between abstraction and representation,
Equivalents – Fall
Artifacts and relics.
The cast and the copy; a function of authorship and reproduction.
Participation as a function of the original
Participation as an act of design or arrangement
Participation as a challenge to authority,
Participation as a vehicle for heterogeneity
Avalanche
Or performance
Of the fragmented mark
Of the symbolic equivalent
Of play between absence and presence
Performing the failure of the mark or trace of bodily action
The Shadow [Detective]
Fingerprint
The Shadow [Detective] collecting commodities and subjects as a basis for subsequent practices.
Slumber
Reproduction as a basis for quotation and reference
Reproduction as mediation and transformation of
Perpetual Photos and Plaster Surrogates
Originals decay or deteriorate.
Mortar and Pestle
Diagrams construct an ephemeral site in place of the object
Diagrams as a form of delay
Diagrams as a form of intent:
Viewing Matters, Face to Face in the Public Toilets
‘May I Help You?’
‘Yes, I would like a bag of donuts and 3 urinals please.’
‘Not Here’
Avalanche
Lick, Lather and Gnaw at impermanence as the index
Lick, Lather and Gnaw at the contingent object
Lick, Lather and Gnaw at the experience
Lick Lather and Gnaw at the material evidence of authenticity
Gnaw at organic materials
Gnaw at chocolate, lard and soap
And yet still there looms a galvanized iron wall and a straight single tube where there dances the
Preserved Head of a Bearded Woman decorated with a String of Puppies
Puppies which need a lot of care and attention
What is this Strange Fruit [for David]?
Painted Bronze, Fountain Meltdown
The scrap metal process separates idea from material truth: an Island within an Island
No amount of Litanies can stop this Statement of Esthetic Withdrawal
The artist’s hand now becomes an object of desire along with Neon Templates of the Left Half of My Body Taken at Ten-Inch Intervals.
Drowned Monuments and Shared Fate; a function of external evidence like Every Building on the Sunset Strip
Short Circuit – Casting, Splashing, Torqued Ellipses
a simple ‘verb list’
Remade readymades,
Readymade readymades
Eureka!
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