“In an attempt to understand our need to quantify our transactions or output, our need to order, to record, I employ standard ledger paper—a material used, economically, for this very purpose. Growing up, I knew this paper only as my father’s work paper.” [+]
Jill Sylvia, Balance Sheets Series: Yellow Book, Hand-Cut Ledger Paper (2008)
[also, an interview / working process here]
The Artists, Death in Reverse
Some index for clerical men and clerical women.
Some shadows. Some thin green.
Some index for men and women of the clergy.
A patient throbbing meant for them.
Pain: found. Loneliness: to a wound and an ear.
Starlight odd, much else. Death
in reverse, minimized, backwards.
Notes and fragments by Michael Burkard
[via This Long Century]
Bertrand Fleuret — via & more — site
[you can download the whole .pdf file]
“I am alone. Walking at random. Wandering, as if at random,...
Peter Upward.
August Strindberg.
From The Lodger, Alfred Hitchcock, 1927.