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No. 01 — An exhibition in burgundy & cream

Curated by an unseen hand. Hung salon-style. Not for the timid.

II — Gallery Wall

Salon, hung at eye-level & elsewhere

Nine vignettes. Irregular hang. The frames argue with each other; the room is better for it.

№ 01 A Hand, Turning a Page Silver gelatin / 1947

“The frame is the argument; the picture is the alibi.” — after H. Newton

№ 02 Velvet, Folded Texture study

№ 03 Vault, Looking Up Architectural fragment

№ 04 Brass & Compass Detail

№ 05 Hill, Moon, Hour Plate XII

№ 06 Spiral, From Above Architectural / 1953

aljosim. The word arrives without translation. It is an instruction to look longer than is comfortable, to hold a frame in the eye until its colors begin to argue. Each plate in this exhibition was chosen for the way it refuses to settle.

Field note · folio I

№ 07 Leather, Cracked Texture / oxidation

№ 08 Molding, in Threes Baroque / detail / pl. IV

Refuse the friendly, refuse the centered, refuse the tidy column — Refuse the friendly, refuse the centered, refuse the tidy column — Refuse the friendly, refuse the centered, refuse the tidy column —

— a working manifesto, rev. ix

IV — Deep Grid

Cream becomes cinder
and the page remembers a fire

A second hang, denser. Smaller plates, longer pauses. The wall is now charred plum; the hand-rule glows.

Lens / pl. IX

Strata

Almond / silver

Eclipse, slow / pl. XII

Leaf, in iron

Constellation, fictive

Hang the work where the wall protests; the room will adjust.