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- 18 September 2004
- No. 5,829 (cartoon)
- Everything’s covered in blood.
One of us is bleeding.
- 19 September 2004
- Ideal Waste
- I’m sitting in Shonagh’s studio looking at the Ideal Waste Material Company and letting my mind wander. What a waste of time; it’s ideal.
- 20 September 2004
- The Show Continues
- New York City is a mammoth film set, and I’m enjoying the show.
- 21 September 2004
- Tree Sea
- I finally made it out of the loft today for a twenty-something kilometer walk. I saw a sea of trees in a cage flowing between tall apartment buildings, among other things.
- 22 September 2004
- Not Just a Statistic
- On the way to the airport this morning I spotted a couple of photographs of American soldiers killed during the occupation or Iraq. The large reproductions, glued to a wall, featured a standard caption, “Not Just a Statistic,” along with the serviceman’s name and a word or two about him.
Bruce Miller
Liked Poetry.
Tyler Fey
Snowboarder.
I thought the words and images were remarkably effective, for indeed I used to think of the tens of thousands of people killed as more or less statistics. Now, I have some faces to associate with monetarily cheap oil.
What a pathetic waste.
- 23 September 2004
- A Token Loss
- I don’t have a lot of material possessions; that’s one of the great benefits of doing conceptual art. And so it was that I was surprised to discover that I’ve kept a New York City subway token—ostensibly good for one ride—since my last visit there in 1990.
I used the word “ostensibly” because, at some point in the last decade or so, city officials scrapped the token-based fare program in favor of a computerized system. And so it is that my little, metal token is worthless.
Actually, I’m not really disappointed. I should know better than to hang on to objects.
- 24 September 2004
- I Can See in the Dark
- I was cooking a late dinner when June walked by and asked me if I’d like the lights on. I was so busy trying to avoid burning things while keeping my wine glass full that I hadn’t noticed that the sun had set some time ago.
“I’m fine.” I replied. “I’m a photographer so I can see in the dark.”
June looked at me quizzically. That’s when I realized my reference to night vision enhanced from working in a darkroom is almost meaningless in a time when individuals rarely develop their own photographs in trays of chemicals in very dim light.
I haven’t been in a darkroom for a decade, and probably never will again.
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