Fifty Two

Maybe Mallarmé was right: the world does exist in order to end up as a book. So much of my work has been about the exotic, the fabulous, and the remote. As a project for the year after my fifty-second birthday, I made a book a week about the events and thoughts of each week. The title of each book is linked to the print-on-demand site at Lulu.com, where you can see a short preview of each book.This project was inspired by the work of two other artists in particular: Skuta Helgason's book-a-week project and Jonas Mekas' project to make a video every day during 2007.

Minus Seven: Moving

Minus Five: Walking to the Bus

Minus Three: Rider

One: Specular

Two: Polyglot

Three: Wallet

Four: LaGuardia Egg Sandwich

Five: Forty Seconds

Six: Delayed

Seven: Falling

Eight: Calendar Tweed

Nine: Night L Ride

Ten: Windy

Eleven: The Shell

Twelve: Night Collapsing

Fourteen: Winter Writing

Fifteen: Byzantine Decomposition

Sixteen: Flu

Seventeen: Lurker

Eighteen: Russian Bus Ride

Nineteen: Kropotkin's Cell

Twenty:Kitchen Talk

Twenty One: Escalator

Twenty Two: Reading

Twenty Three: Conference

Twenty Four: The View

Twenty Five: Melting Out

Twenty Six: Half

Twenty Seven: Ancient Cities of Mars

Twenty Eight: Budding Out

Twenty Nine: Crit

Thirty: Peoria Bus Conference Ham

Thirty One: Hypnotic

Thirty Two: Waiting

Thirty Three: Transparent

Thirty Four: Graduation

Thirty Five: Development

Thirty Six: Reading Basho on the Deck

Thirty Seven: Explaining Michael Snow's Cover to Cover

Thirty Eight: Heaven

Thirty Nine: Eating on the Transsiberian

Forty: Lake Baikal Water

Forty One: Russian Stencil Grafitti

Forty Two: Transsiberian Express

Forty Three: Pilgrim Huts

Forty Four: Crossing

Forty Five: Walking into Kurumkhan

Forty Six: Raskolnikov's

Forty Seven: Corn Viewing

Forty Eight: Invisible

Forty Nine: Office

Fifty: Former Military Airport

Fifty One: Connecting Flight

Fifty Two: Index