The Prior Art


Booklets & concerns:
1998 - 2010


A and the asterisk: chariot-able companions.




Quotation or Paternity

Origins: 2002, 2006-2010

Concerns: Version control, invention, prior art, 
attribution, quotation, pseudo-folk, 
inventory, vernacular, direct address.



Life X

Origins: 2008-2009

Concerns: Paternity, invention, the epigram,
education, derivation, authorship.


Radiant Species

Origins: 2006 - 2009

Concerns: Taxonomy, the visual intelligence,
the 'human', the bounded society, models,
porosity, vulnerability.



Window's Arbor

Origins: 1998-2000

Concerns: The visual intelligence, fable,
the line, intelligibility, childhood,
origin, rootlessness, derivation.


The Coward Ecumenical

Origins: 2000-2003, 2005, 2008

Concerns: Consensus, direct address,
exceptionalism, moral ambivalence,
social constructions of cowardice,
parentage, minority, the ecumene.


Engram Sepals

Origins:  1999-2002

Concerns: Lyrical assemblage, ontology,
the 'folk' and the 'world', authorship,
intellectual 'properties', reverie,
memory, the 'dirty' intelligence.









Notes on composition

Booklets, concerns, epigrams, poems; composed largely between 1998 and 2010, one collection roughly every other year. Almost certain to change, they are loosely collected, avoiding version control, largely under the principle that the proposition and the concern matter far more than the curatorial impulse or, of all things, the publication. 

The PRB imprint is a valise fiction: personal resource booklets, no more, no less.