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COLLECTING TEXTS

Saving these texts is a humongous job. It's the only part of the project that almost got me down. It's so extensive. On the other hand I need them to flesh out the allegory. Because of the model I used.

Yes. yes.

That end of the gallery stands for something. It holds a record of everything that passes through. Whether anyone ever reads those or not doesn't matter.

No.

I still want to put them in the binder.

I absolutely understand.

I'll use such an abundance of words that ah, ........

That's actually another aspect of your practice that I could have talked about. It is that ability to, or that desire to incorporate everything. So you're working within some kind of limited system as we always are. Ah, but within that system, not to edit out, not to make decisions that this is not worthy of being part of the final result.

That's actually part of the limitation--not to edit.

Yeah. yeah.

I guess it is here a little bit. "She doesn't like to miss anything. Even those things that you imagine she would not like." Yeah.

Yeah.

And that's why when I wrote this I felt very very free because I knew that there were some personal things there that you might prefer that weren't there in print on an invitation such as this but I also know you well enough that I thought that I could get away with it.

[Laughter]

And I can, see. [More laughter] So we know one another too well.

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She said, "It was the only nice thing we had in the parlor."

Yeah

She always names two other things, grandma and grandpa park's portrait in the oval gilt frame and a picture of some kind of flowers made out of hair.

Oh. Oh a hair weave.

She said it was hair from people that had died.

Yeah.

Ha ha.

Yeah, we had a couple of those in the museum I worked at in Chilliwac.

You did!

Yah, it was a very popular Victorian thing.

To make pictures out of hair.

Yeah

Human hair?

Well they were like reeds or kind of floral arrangements

She said this one was a bouquet of flowers or something.

Yeah, something like that.

The flowers were made out of different colours of hair.

Yeah, and then it was put in a deep glass frame and hung on the wall. It was a very Victorian kind of thing. it would have been old fashioned in her time.

Well she didn't think too much of it. This lanscape is the one she liked.

Grandpa Park's portrait was in a gold oval frame and it hung on the calcimined wall in the front room.


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