Oblivion Can be forgotten

This redaction is derived from Psychology: The Briefer Course (1892).  In particular, here I contend with William James's chapter on "Memory," finding echoes of Peirce, Poe, and Freud in his pragmatic struggle to resist the overwhelming desire for nothingness. The accompanying images (contact prints from 4x5 and medium format negatives) document the geo-semic erasure of the Grovecrest retirement community, a long-term and memory-care facility, closed and condemned by the local municipal authority in the second decade of the twenty-first century. 

Following the methodical rules of this series, I have redacted marks, phrases, and sentences, as a censor might with a sensitive government communication. 

Things are nothing. Rational systems. Invented technical memories, forgotten. 

May 2026

Materials: Cyanotype contact prints on archival paper, thread bound.

Dimensions: 8.5"x6"x0.75"