Friday, July 7, 2017

The Waste Books Archive.


 Silent Parrot Press Archives:The Waste Books:2017

 Within the post-exhibition moments that one needs to spend in packing away works and putting the past in order I often think of Walter Benjamin's short essay "Unpacking My Library" that acts as a trigger for reflecting upon the life of a collector, the kind of collector who seeks strange things often considered valueless. I have never been an avid collector but in packing away 'the waste books' I realise that for sometime now I have in fact, been collecting myself. sp.

Silent Parrot Press Archives:The Waste Books:2017
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4 comments:

  1. Mo CrowJuly 7, 2017 at 8:38 AM

    a place to be cool, calm and collected in our beautiful broken world

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  2. glen skienJuly 7, 2017 at 7:21 PM

    Mo Crow...as always so poignant.

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  3. Velma BolyardJuly 13, 2017 at 12:47 PM

    how weird it all is packed up in cardboard. but i like these photos a lot.

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  4. ShwetablogJuly 20, 2017 at 8:07 PM

    grt

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