“I was digging through some web server when I found a link to a database of scanned black and white photographs. Later when I returned to the server with the intention of downloading the images, each had been replaced by an error symbol—a small, square, graphic with an ‘x’ in the corner. At this point the server is completely offline.”

“Each photograph depicted a stage in the process of print production. The majority of photos were of a typical ‘paste-up’ board (‘paste-up’ was the technique used to do page layout prior to computers). Text and graphics were carefully placed along blue guidelines, which had been hand-drawn on a sheet of wax-covered paper. I tried to figure out the exact date and location of the publication but the heading for the page had not yet been inserted into the layout (I think it must have been a small-town newspaper). On the page were pieces of a story about a local political scandal. There was an assortment of potent fragments such as ”...deregulated field…”, ”...put it in writing that he had seen…”, ”...difficult to maintain such a position…”, ”...in direct contradiction to previous…”. From what I could gather funds had been surreptitiously diverted into some kind of cultural institution. The politician at the center of the controversy neither affirmed nor denied any involvement. (How quaint such overt spin seems when compared to our current administration’s linguistic machinations.”

“Perhaps what I have stumbled upon is a useful methodology—answers are provided to the wrong questions, statements are issued as a type of evasion, and sudden changes in position are conspicuously combined with incessant repetition. I’m working with a stage-prop company called Scenicorp… definitely appropriate for the subject. You’ll see what I mean.” – Daniel Lefcourt