Upon moving into the apartment from which I began this web site, I stuck to the wall above my desk six cork panels, thinking they might be handy -- but they were only ever used decoratively, accumulating various tacked-on images that, together, and especially after having seen John Berger's "Ways of Seeing," I took to have some vague meaning, or just became sentimental about from seeing them all the time, or out of some idea of self-expression.

Some were museum postcards, others were inkjet printed on regular copy paper. By the end of 2020 the adhesive had begun to deteriorate and the cork panels had begun to fall down; what remained went in the trash when I moved out the following year. Though it had been intended as a dynamic working-space, I'd grown attached to the particular arrangement, which can be seen in the photo above; this page preserves something of that original collage, albeit more sequentially and with the images closer in size to one another than they were ever perceived in person.

more around l.a. // back to home page

( version history )