memory objects series (spoon)
Digital photograph, graphite on paper, 2014–2016.
And this wondrous thing, which is all that a slotted spoon should ever be.
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memory objects series (peppermill #1)
Digital photograph, graphite on paper, 2014–2016.
piano finish is what they call it
if pianos were blue
and like a piano, I only pay attention to one end of it
apparently
the end I play, not where the result comes out
the part my fingers touch
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memory objects series (hat)
Digital photograph, graphite on paper, 2014–2016.
I thought I would only wear it for the opening—a costume.
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memory objects series (Miffy #2)
Digital photograph, graphite on paper, 2014–2016.
it was wearing on me
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memory objects series (tarot card)
Digital photograph, graphite on paper, 2014–2016.
Who looks at the back of a tarot card, really?
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memory objects series (tarot box)
Digital photograph, graphite on paper, 2014–2016.
I made that box, & another one the same size, in 1992. Do I have more accurate memories of things I actually made, measured, cut & glued with my own hands?
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memory objects
I’d assumed certain favorite objects would come with me when I temporarily, partially moved to LA. But when packing time came, they stubbornly insisted on staying home in Berkeley. So when I was in LA, I drew them from memory, feeling their contours with a very soft pencil, erasing and redrawing over and over until they felt like themselves, in an almost psychic process of remembering or summoning each object’s presence.
After moving back home, I photographed the objects, together with their drawings, and then made them into a book with text (excerpted here alongside the pictures).