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on the one hand I am all too aware that I set this all up from the beginning,

making choices to use material that I hadn’t used before, to create a series out of thin

air on the spur of the moment that doesn’t just utilize a singular theme and gets printed

on paper and put lovingly into common rectangular boxes surrounded by whiteness

and smothered in glass, that would be too easy to pull off, too easy to succeed at, too

simple to get one good show behind me to give me some confidence and feedback

because working in a vacuum is easy and provides zero opportunity to face the fear

of failure by putting myself out there (though there is no there) while having a self-

imposed feeling of failure in the grander scheme of things, so why not set it up in

such an obvious way that allows for me to either say fuck it and quit or it just gets so

goddamned tricky that failure is the outcome anyway, by printing photos with text

on stainless steel to fit into a bullshit artist statement written one night almost 5

months ago

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