molly springfield
PA4025.A5S8 PA4025.A5S8 (detail) PZ8.1.H75 1B 1893 (detail) PZ8.1.H75 1B 1893 (detail) PA3612.H7 PA3612.H7 (detail)
Card Catalogue Drawings
"This work explores a sense of loss or absence as a culturally-shared experience by reproducing cards from a discarded library card catalogue. It was a series of ten drawings based on ten different cards, each one cataloguing Homer's Odyssey or Iliad, two of the paternity texts of Western Culture. Each of the cards references a book that is slightly different, either by virtue of its translator, edition or publisher. The result is a somber meditation on sameness and difference in an age of mass production, reproduction and appropriation and a cagey attack on the legitimacy of canonical authority."
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