Gertrude Stein discussed punctuation to great length. She discusses individual punctuations, almost giving them personalities of their own based on their merits or negative qualities. For these reason when I developed an interest in punctuation I chose to work with Stein’s text Punctuation in prose.
This book attempts to create a completely internal dialogue between myself and Stein, through the text Punctuation in prose. Keeping the text entirely whole, neither adding nor taking away from the original text. To achieve this I broke down Stein’s text into sections, selected some to keep and some sections to remove. From the removed sections I assembled into my half of the discussion, turning the text into a dialog. Nothing has been added nor subtracted, there are still exactly 2049 words in the text and each word is precisely the same. Nothing has changed, but everything has altered.
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This work was selected for an exhibition curated by Simon Martin at Studio Voltaire. For more info on the exhibition click here.
nichol keene 