The Practice Becoming Physical
Thirty years of picking up discarded things and turning them over in the hand until something caught the light. Writing, visual art, installations, performance, sound work. A philosophy already forming: Beautiful Garbage — transforming discarded materials into art as an alternative to violence.
The digital work becoming leaves and booklets and marks. Things you could hold in your hand. Things you could bind. Things you could stamp with a circle that does not close.
Three Rooms
From the Workshop
Visual art, assemblage, booklet covers, leaves, and Maker's Marks. Each piece carries its own proportions.
The Objects
The practice makes physical objects. Not just digital files — physical booklets that can be held, carried, given. Five by seven inches. Vertical portrait. Saddle-stitch — two staples through the spine. The paper: seventy to eighty pound uncoated text, cream or natural white. The cover: eighty to one hundred pound colored card stock. Black ink only.
The front cover carries only the Unfinished Circle. Hand-drawn. Does not close — a gap of fifteen to twenty degrees. No title. No author name. The symbol alone. The imperfection is essential.
Six cover stock colors. Each one earned by the piece inside — the warm pieces on dusty rose or ochre, the cold pieces on slate or fog, the transformation pieces on sage or terracotta. The color is part of the meaning.
One hundred circular symbols designed. Each one an unfinished circle with the gap at a different position. No two pieces carry the same mark. The uniqueness is the point.
The Numbers
The booklet is the practice's most intimate form. The reader holds it in one hand. The reader reads it in ten minutes. The reader carries it in a coat pocket.