Re: [BKARTS] An Amazing Lincoln Memorial Notebook on Display-

[liz blake <liz.blake@xxxxxxxxx>]

Delightful and related web projects, both dealing in particular with the
ways the authors spend their money, include Cat & Girl's donation derby (
http://catandgirl.com/dderby/) and Kate Consumption's drawings of her
purchases and credit card statements (
http://obsessiveconsumption.typepad.com/).

Neither is exactly an artist's book in the traditional sense, but both seem
germane regardless.

On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Jules Siegel <jules@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The Prints & The Paper wrote:
>
>> It always amazes me when people think of such interesting things to
>> do....I
>> recall seeing one huge artists book that contained the coin change the
>> maker
>> had received each day for various transactions over the period of a year,
>> with notes and receipts re each transaction....
>>
> You'll be interested in the story of Jill Price, a woman with an amazing
> autobiographical memory who keeps comprehensive records of everything she
> does and notices. Among her works are her minutely detailed diaries in her
> own densely compacted idiosyncratic hand. There's a complete rundown here,
> with some compelling illustrations:
> <
> http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/17-04/ff_perfectmemory?currentPage=all
> >
>
> Seeing this gave me an eerie feeling of self-recognition. Most of my work
> is self-reflective, not only in the sense of being about me, but also being
> about the work itself. I originally started my journals -- <
> http://www.madlaughter.com/fff> and <http://www.madlaughter.com/slides> --
> for the pleasure of writing out my thoughts by hand after years in the
> galleys (pun intended and highly appropriate). They evolved into notes for a
> book about my adventures as a journalist in the American underground of
> dope-dealing communes and alternate culture while writing for Rolling Stone
> and Playboy. So much was happening at any given moment that I wanted to keep
> a record that would enable me to reconstruct complex events. This included
> observations about my state of mind, which, as you might imagine, was not
> always in what we might choose to call a normal state of consciousness. I
> can still look at those pages and go back to exactly where I was when I
> wrote my often cryptic clues, hints and comments.
>
> The author of the article about Jill Price suggests that she may be a
> victim of obsessive compulsive disorder. I'm not going to try to argue him
> out of that because I saw looking into this strange magnifying mirror my own
> art, which is as much obsession as career choice, utterly compulsive, for
> sure, although not necessarily a disorder (I hope).
>
> --
> JULES SIEGEL Apdo. 1764, 77501-Cancun, Q. Roo, Mexico
>
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