Volume documents bound periodicals and journals in public libraries. Most of these publications are being replaced by their online counterparts. Several titles photographed in the process of this project have been destroyed. Searching endless rows of utilitarian text, I am struck by the physical mass of knowledge and the tenuousness of printed work as it fades from public consciousness.
The act of hunting for and photographing these objects is fundamental to my process. I do not touch, light, or manipulate the books and words – preferring to document them as found in the stacks, created by the librarian, and positioned by the last unknown reader. I focus on simple, provocative titles that transcend the spines on which they appear to create conceptual, language-based, anthropological works.
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Collocation is defined as "the act or result of placing or arranging together, specifically: a noticeable arrangement or conjoining of linguistic elements (as words)."
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Many thanks to the following libraries and their generous staff.
Carleton College Gould Library
Columbia University
Library of Congress
Minneapolis Public Library
Minnesota Historical Society
New York Public Library
New York University
Oberholtzer Foundation
Saint Catherine University
Saint Paul Public Library
Seattle Public Library
The New School
Time, Inc. Archives
University of Minnesota Libraries
University of Missouri Kansas City Libraries
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