the site:


the purpose of this web site is to publish and display my art — which doesn’t fit into the ‘normal’ paradigms of art gallery and book publishing

the site consists of three sections plus this introductory text




text / writing:


i’ve always thought of myself as an artist although i’ve actually been much more of a writer and collector than a visual artist —

i’ve been writing for about fifty years and produced a huge amount of text — for now i’m going to be concentrating on a set of notebooks or journals that i’ve been writing for most of those fifty years




visual art:


the art pictured here is part of a sporadic production — almost none of it recent




collections:


throughout my life i’ve been a collector — not of anything in particular — i just enjoy finding things — one of my main goal is to somehow make ‘art’ out of this rather [insane] gathering of things


each of the sections has it’s own introduction
HYPOLOGY
INTRODUCTION
i like ambiguity

usually i’d rather make it complex than keep it simple

the structure of the site:


i avoid the sentence / paragraph structure
i use words & text fragments
blocks of texts
pages

i want to keep the structure of the site rather simple
the links are usually at the bottom of the page — back and forward arrows move through the pages of a section — the up arrow links back one level in the hierarchy of the site (ie this page links back to the front page of the site) — gray arrows indicate you’re at the beginning or end of a section



accessibility:


i consider the site to be an artwork and each page is designed in a grid of 1350x800 pixels — it is not intended to be viewed on a small screen — to me that would be like reducing a large illustrated art book to a pocket book so that it would be easier to carry around



punctuation:


i don’t like commas and periods
i like punctuation that is symmetrical in the text line (dashes - brackets etc)
(apostrophes and quotation marks don’t bother me and i use them while avoiding commas and periods)

{ } indicates choices of words to multiply the meaning[s] of the text
[ ] indicates text that can be omitted — providing alternate meaning[s]
in the journals < > indicates things inserted into the text sometime after the day it was written

i rarely use question marks — questions are almost always obvious from the context and if they’re not i like to introduce an ambiguity between question and statement

i like ambiguity

usually i’d rather make it complex than keep it simple