9/23

art intersects life
sex    life
sex life
strife

my art show — variations in black and white — (will I have time to collect all of these ideas? — execute the works?
execute?     work?)
the missing photography — perhaps a collage from K’s picture scraps — a western landscape

an illustrated catalog of my works —

works that accompany text
works that are inserted into text

text inserted into work

Derrida on inserting books into each other and my ideas concerning my own work along similar lines

at work reading Artforum — restless — should do some art work tonight — layers of things to do that I don’t want to do — the bay window
the house as a series of ideas that I don’t want to articulate
letters to write — I want to deal in person — my reticence — yet I hate talking on the phone and hate letters even more

<3/13/89
what determines what to discard — i was going to leave out the above — perhaps it’s the laziness of not wanting to decide that causes me to leave most of this stuff in — 3/13/89 for the records>

the idea of working with painting as painting — of using different backgrounds — for example — white on black instead of black on white — of shifting from one to the other — a white ground in part black in another — of painting over one picture with another after documenting each layer

the author is currently writing a detailed criticism of his own work which should leave no formal aspects open to criticism — psychological or psycho historical aspects will be left to someone else —

charts / diagrams / tables / lists