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1. I have archived much of my life through collected objects.
2. I have moved a smaller studio, making it necessary that I get rid of a lot of these objects.
3. I have done so by using them as the raw material for one enormous collage, created inside a 30-yard dumpster.
4. Oh, also, I have photographed around 500 of these objects and will display them here, accompanied by a brief history of each item.

RAYFIELD WRIGHT CARD

6.5 x 9 cm
I went to Tilden Junior High School in Maryland. We had a shop teacher there, his name was something that began with 'mister'. I don't remember. I only know he is dead now. While I am ostensibly saddened by his passing, I have to admit the very human tendency to pit his existence against my relative life experience. By that I mean: I do not mourn the loss of value added to our shared experience provided by my former shop teacher; instead, I mourn the loss of time left I have on this earth as indicated by the demise of  one associated with a temporal hallmark of my existence.
Look, my narcism isn't the point here. The point is, Rayfield Wright reminds me of my shop teacher from Tilden Junior High. Mister-something.

3 comments:

  1. Oh...this is going to bother me until I remember his name. I do remember him singing "every time you go away, you take a piece of meat with you..." Wait - was it Mr. Thomas?

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  2. Wendy! That's it! It was Mr. Thomas.

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  3. Great Project. Love it. funny comment "Craig Morton looks like Neil Diamond." hell yeah!He was actually the Dallas Cowboys quarterback before Roger Staubach and the Staubach beat him out for # 1 QB spot. He didn't do that good for the Giants.
    Anyway, again Great Piece. I hope I can get over to see it one day.
    Daniel, Greenwich Village

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