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Ryman at Dia Chelsea

 “Destruction takes place so order might exist. / Simple enough. / Destruction takes place at the point of maximum awareness.”  Charles Wright “An ever dimmer light.”  Samuel Beckett “In every story I tell comes a point where I can see no further.” Anne Carson “That language can suggest a body where there is none.” Rosemarie …

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In “The Finch”

I like a painting that does something, like a machine does something: you turn it on and it functions–” The click of the shutter, the click of the cliche, but lets come back to that later– I have noticed that not infrequently, when I find myself in front of a painting I have been introduced …

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At the Watson Library

From The Library as Incubator Project: Jared Ash at the Special Collections of the Watson Library: “I had a strong feeling that Watson had a wealth of titles that Jen would find interesting, inspiring, and informative, and encouraged her to come up for a visit. I am thrilled that my hunch was correct, and that …

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10 White Lies

10 White Lies and Poem of the End: proof pages and printed and bound white lie (n.) an often trivial, diplomatic or well-intentioned untruth a minor or unimportant lie, especially one uttered in the interests of tact or politeness 10 images from various web sources present 10 dramatically different takes on the original. All are …

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An Imperfect Mirror

An Imperfect Mirror:  a ‘book’ of 15 loose pages in a clam-shell box; printed with offset lithography in silver ink, the cards mirror enough to reflect the light but not much else. The book combines original and found texts on art and reflection

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