ARTISTS
Richard Aldrich
Elizabeth Bishop
Louise Bourgeois
Robert Creeley
Jimmie Durham
Melvin Edwards
Gaylen Gerber
Robert Grenier
Rob Halverson
Bill Hayden & Sam Pulitzer
Gareth James
Yuki Kimura
Nevine Mahmoud
Christoph Meier
Jean-Luc Moulène
George Oppen
Nathaniel T Price
Sara Greenberger Rafferty
Anne Sexton
Jack Spicer
Sue Tompkins
Dinah Young
Stefan Tcherepnin

THE LASTING CONCEPT
Translation from one language into itself.
An inquiry as to the nature and purpose of images and words entwined.
Our reasons both slender and unreasonable, we proceed with the greatest urgency.

For the preservation of certain inalienable rights.
A life which is lifelike. Pursuit rather than attainment.
Free speech and the right to remain silent.

There are times when rage and matter simply … collide.

Our belief in free association, well trampled though it may be, perhaps the greatest path to reason.

We will amend you. This is the enforcement of law.

A human certainty …

Is every life interesting enough for a play?

A song heard in the distance, familiar even as the record turns hazily.

m a t e r i a l … o b j e c t s … p o s s e s s i v e … u n r e a l c i r c l e s … g a m e s … 
c o n t r a d i c t i n g l i e s … w h y s e e y o u r s e l f …

as it comes to an end, the voice stutters in the dust …
y r e g o … y r e g o … y r e g o …

After all, the difference between a groove and a grave is only … a matter of depth.

A desiccated hand shudders to lift the arm and the needle.

All the untidy activity continues, awful but cheerful.

The lasting Concept will prevail.

- – Above excerpt from Bob Nickas



what a mess everything is,

a group show points at a “human certainty”. 
the end that is the dot in the distance and all bumps on the way there.

what a mess everything is

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notation
proof
skill
incomplete thoughts
touch
mark
reportage
name in fragments 
the list grows longer and strangely less intelligible
alternative to the facts of lived experience
territorialize
so abstract 
would it not be

- above some words plucked from description of scorched earth journal project.

death at the end of that dot in the distance

Love
never exhaustible filling than refilling
every month or so?
next up a dog shitting in the streets
digestion
a pointing system of stored moments
help help
they heard the new fruit drop
the waves keep at it
furniture is moved
it’s all overlapping
and look for it
images_file
all repeat or you could say
big smiling face this is everyone
what a world it is when the center is that
tangle

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