Alphabet (NYT 01/01/01) / 2001-2 / solvent transfer on silk tissue / 26 drawings, 24"h x 18"w ea

From January 1, 2001, until the end of the year, I collected the front pages of The New York Times and used this archive to construct drawings that look at the newspaper as a kind of collective memory. What initially caught my attention was the binary alignment of the first day of the millennium, which Alphabet (NYT 01/01/01) commemorates by separating out each letter of that day’s front page. Meant to be hung calendar-style, the drawings abstract the idea of information and frustrate the ability to comprehend.