1. NYT Magazine dated January 22, 2017, opened to an article about the White House mailroom during President Obama’s second term. (Notes: small stories of ordinary human lives, letter writing and language as form of connection, many parts of a whole.)
2. Backside of Fruiting Bodies showcard. (Notes: look, you have shows sometimes.)
3. Press release for The Way of Flowers at the now relocated Dust to Dust project with one line highlighted. (Notes: Line reads “Ephemeral and vibrant, they [flowers] remind us of the impermanence of all things while also invoking desire and vitality.”)
4. Stack of mind maps racing in subject matter including: wish, wanting, salt, dissolve, dandelion, solidity, possess. As well as a few poems about salt cup.
5. Page from a photo publication, with a grid of photos and a poem by William Trowbridge, address stamped Oregon College of Art and Craft, 8245 SW Barnes Rd. (Notes: attempting to capture things that are unnameable, repeating subject matter, photography as impulse to remember, RIP OCAC)
6. Showcard from More or Less Wet by Ali Balter. (Notes: I take good photos of art and my friends make cool art.)
7. Showcard from Re: Surface at C3: Initiative. (Notes: ditto above, also books as documentation and subject matter.)
8. Gallery text written by Sydney Haliburton for Colors So True by Clifford Prince King, at MF Projects with notes on front and underlined notations throughout. (Notes: Front notes read “Photograph as archive/Photography as proof of existence/Photography as diary” underlined portion reads: “Through a display of vulnerability and intimacy, the black gay body gently exposed in King’s work remedies this trauma through the act of knowing and being known.”)
9. Showcard for Ann Hamiliton’s Habitus (Notes: Holy fucking shit, was this exhibition amazing. Thoughts on home, place, experience.)
10. Showcard for Zanele Muholi’s exhibition at SAM, Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail The Dark Lioness (Notes: Ditto above. Thoughts on self-portraiture as performance, self-portraiture as catalogue of many selves.)
11. Fragment of broadside that reads “And suddenly the memory revealed itself.” Attributed to “Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time.” (Notes: Memory as subject matter, remembering as subject matter.)
12. Postcard from Soul of a Nation seen at The Broad in LA, showing a painting titled “What’s Going On” by Barkley L. Hendricks (1974) (Notes: What a great exhibition. Also, concealment and reveal, pockets, overlap.)
13. Letterpress printed postcard from Hoarfrost Press that reads “I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.” attributed to Annie Dillard. (Notes: unrealized potential, a single moment revealing who you are, even to yourself.
14. NYT Magazine dated June 10, 2018, opened to a spread depicting specific times throughout a single day of documenting New Yorkers. (Notes: fragments of lives, small stories of ordinary people, love as a subject matter.)