Index to the Present
The index is a form of conceptual poetry that appears throughout my work. In this 1,800-line iteration, columns of text form a low horizon around the gallery space. Within the lists are cross references that invite the reader to “see also,” moving around the gallery to find sublists of linked data. The poem serves as an appendix to my other works, documenting their context: what I was reading or thinking about in the studio as well as events happening at the time. Order is alphabetical instead of categorical. The personal gets shuffled into the collective. Entries that happen to appear next to each other create surprising, often humorous, new meaning through their proximity.
