the word “Menards” is bent and folded like graffiti at the knot tied in the handles of the heavy plastic hardware store bag I grabbed to carry my complete collection of grad school notebooks.
Through the lens of the work as installation, I will read my notebooks for the first time since I made them.
Farther down the writing on the bag appears “Dedicated to Service & Quality” perfectly flat across the plane created by the stack of black moleskine notebooks, and printed on the bag in smaller font, perfectly centered on the rectangle made by the stack of slim books,
“Please reuse & recycle for a better tomorrow”
I have the paper journal in case I forgot the computer entirely, like a can opener I can’t work.
“Art & Biotechnology” I wrote with black rollerball pen on black cover, making an engraving that shows only in certain lights. your machines will be living, and your living will be machines. this way to grandma’s house, little red. follow the yellow brick road. follow the white rabbit.
I hold the moleskine in my left hand, I’ll have to shift laptop and thisy-way-that before I can open it. I can only shake it, and imagine the eye of horus winking inside its folded pages
drop everything and make a pop-up paper handmade book that is a colored pencil drawing and folded paper cutout of the eye of horus.
Modern & Postmodern Art
Correspondence Art
Forbidden Avant Guards
Advising
The other side of the bag reads,
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