Any attempt to organize & diagram the un-diagrammable seems small-minded, but also a lovely gesture. My work "How to collect and display unfinished conversations" is a wall of poetic sentence fragments (vintage flash card subjects and predicates) signed & numbered as an edition by me then sold individually for $1 each. People took 1 or more home to display or keep. Some combos made sense, some were Dada-esque, all different.

The way to collect language then, is not to grid it on a white wall, but disperse it as far as you can fling it, secrets held tightly in the night by people who love words.

How to Collect and Display Unfinished Conversations, 42” x 76” 2016

How to Collect and Display Unfinished Conversations, detail, 2016