This book transforms email scams about money into poetry about human desire by way of erasure. Both the original and the transformation are presented on facing pages. These emails were accumulating in my junk mail box until I transferred them to my raw materials folder which I open in idle moments. These missives, these attempts to get something from someone for nothing and the language they use - is it intentional, or is it the result of a translation algorithm? Do these promises of money ever hook anyone? Erasure brings out another layer, no less desperate. The search for connection continues -- for better or worse.

What can a poem be? This is a book of visual poems that use abstract, unassigned marks as linguistic elements. These are suggestive rather than definitive compositions.

frames per second / frames made from video fly-overs of large drawings / sequences of repetitions with incremental changes, edited / musical structures / sound patterns / stutter poems / comics

"As it were" is a collection of seventeen non-verbal compositions that visually explore the story as a form. Considering literary forms, one sees that a poem resides in a shape that is particular to it and inviolable. A novel, however, exists in many pages that all look alike. A story occupies a limited enclosure with a consistent though malleable shape. Each story in this collection uses a different system of generators, each uses its own language. Like drawing, writing is visual and gestural, but with different constraints. Without the force of semantic content holding one's attention in a specific mode to the page, the differences between drawing and writing begin to soften and the act of looking and the act of reading begin to merge.

We found these stamps in a thrift shop, they were cancelled, but we proved they could still fly. This project, consisting of a limited edition of 25 8x10" color prints, has been exhibited in New York and other galleries. This book is a catalogue of the original prints.

This is the full color catalogue for an exhibit that didn't take place of pages from books that don't exist.