Argument 07
Fabrication
A drawing goes to a shop and the shop returns the work. Authorship moves to the specification, and the conservator inherits the consequences.
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Entries
One cause, one consequence, each
- 01
Sent to the shop
Ordering an object from an industrial fabricator by drawing and specification, and what that does to the idea of a hand.
- 02
Editions and the plate
What a plate or a matrix can repeat, where the edition number comes from, and what cancelling means.
- 03
Unstable materials
Latex, foam and cheap plastic age badly, and conservation becomes a question of intent rather than surface.
Raking light does the reading for you — the cracks follow the weave of the support and the drying of the layers above it.
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