Biography & Autobiography
| Any book I make could arguably be considered an autobiography, but the books in this group are consciously constructed as biographical studies worked out in a visual mode. Collecting figures prominently here: "Collections are autobiographies that reflect the collector and the act of collecting as much as the objects collected. As I get older, the relationship between collecting and discarding parallels that of remembering and forgetting: I remember less and accumulate more. The simple job of cleaning my filing cabinet reveals . . . ephemera defining who I am, or perhaps who I have become." ~ from C(a[e{I}o]u)P: Autobiography #5. |
