plastic bag, lined notebook paper and pencil, rock
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*from the Reenactments show at Current Gallery in Baltimore, MD -- A Magazine Stand Project with support from the Baltimore Book Festival
Myself and other artists were asked to recreate a drawing from our childhood. I spent many of my summers as a kid at our family cottage on Cayuga Lake in upstate NY where I occupied myself with collecting various "specimens" and rocks. One summer I emptied the clothes from my dresser and created a mini-laboratory/museum archive, with each drawer housing specimens arranged by some invented categorical system I can no longer recall. I do remember that when I felt there was a gap in my collection, I would draw it on a stone using another stone as my pencil. All collected specimens were placed in individual plastic bags and tagged with some label, usually a letter and/or symbol. Because I was never allowed to keep the half-decayed fish (and other animals) I would find, I used to make my own example specimens instead; the fish was the subject of my Reenactments piece.
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