The First Iteration of How Are You?
A greetings card folded cleanly in four — “You are UNiQUE” split down the middle. This was the first time the question had a form, before it became anything else.
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Sky-blue-pink Psychedelic Sugar Lump T-Shirt
Pink half-tone lettering on electric blue — SUGAR LUMP filling the shirt with no apology. A piece that knows exactly what it is.
Abandoned Jacket
A quilted jacket on the pavement, black and crumpled against the railings — lost or left, it’s hard to say which. The daisies behind the railings are doing their own thing, entirely indifferent.
A Still from Video Piece Entitled ‘Ma’
Roses going over in a green glass vase, the window behind them backlit by a low sun. A still from the film rather than a photograph — though the distinction barely matters here.
Certificates for 20 Broken Objects
The printed certificates stacked on cardboard, still warm from the printer — each one numbered, signed, and embossed. Twenty of them, one for each exchange.
Long Shot of Truman Install
The network map across 4 planes of the walls of the Truman Brewery — the tape lines branching and crossing, each one standing in for a connection between two people who never met. The room was large enough that you…
Close-up of Truman Install for 20 Broken Objects
The duct tape lines converging on a single point — the brickwork underneath making it rougher and more physical than the Hendon version. The light from a hole in the wall in the corner is incidental, but intrudes beautifully
First Install of the Exchange Network at Hendon MDX
Black duct tape on the white wall and floor — the network of exchanges rendered in the cheapest possible material, site-specific and temporary by nature. This was the first time the map existed in physical space.
A Duplicate Image of the Hendon Installation
A second view of the duct tape piece at Hendon — the lines running up the wall and across the floor, the light box visible in the corner. I’m including it because the light is different.
A Remix — 20 Broken Objects (Work in Progress) × Richard Long
An early iteration of the piece in dialogue with Long’s wall text works — the list of broken objects as found poetry, the names of contributions standing in for place names, the layout itself broken.