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Granite

2000
Dobbin Mill abaca and cotton rag papers, graphite
19" x 25"
Series of 4

Forty pages - the number for eternity - are contained in the 4 boxes of this edition. Each black sheet is granite patterned - with markings of scratching, clawing, dragging. These marks were made in response to the concept of Primitivbauweise - created by SS Chief Heinrich Himmler, where prisoners were ordered to work with their bare hands wherever possible.

Within these pulp paintings, permutations of numbers #1 through #186 are laboriously written out. The number variations are transcribed in Russian, German, and Yiddish among others.

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