gallery one

six rooms

the exhibit is arranged in six volumes. enter in any order. leave nothing behind.

the six volumes of the unsigned artist’s book, self portrait / no logos. choose a room to read its opening fragments and selected work.

inside the book

selected work

one work from each volume. writing and artwork from the book.

Rembrandt’s Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee: a sailing boat and its passengers in a violent sea.pages 016–017 · volume Ithe entrancecant pray the ceiling aint said shit
Richard Gerstl’s laughing self-portrait: a man with dark hair and an open smile against a textured brown background.pages 096–097 · volume IIart for disordersonly write when im manic im good till i panic
artwork credit

Richard Gerstl, Self-Portrait, Laughing (1908). Reproduction: Belvedere, Wien, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Charles Prendergast’s The Offering: gold-toned figures with wings and robes among patterned flowers and trees.pages 200–201 · volume IIIinventoryweight of the world on my shoulders busted it down
Virginia Frances Sterrett’s illustration of Medea meeting a warrior on the steps of a columned palace.pages 452–453 · volume IVmuses / hoesshe just want me she over nice things
Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s The Drawbridge: an immense imagined prison with stone arches, stairways and suspended chains.pages 518–519 · volume Vevidencedont catch me mid wild reckless
Darío de Regoyos’s Good Friday in Castile: a steam train crosses a stone viaduct above a religious procession.pages 886–887 · volume VIcodashe say
read the welcome page
I

the entrance

a room of introduction, absence, disguise, posture, and withheld identity.

II

art for disorders

a room of diagnosis, obsession, chemical evidence, and private collapse.

III

inventory

a catalogue of objects, luxury, collecting, debt, value, and evidence.

IV

muses / hoes

a catalogue of desire, memory, intimacy, performance, and disappearance.

V

evidence

a room of violence, consequence, confession, myth, and unfinished testimony.

VI

coda

gallery one has concluded. the exhibit has ended, but the subject remains.

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