CLEARING MY WORK DESK OF PILES OF WET PAPER.....AFTER THE MOST RECENT DELUGE FROM MY LEAKING ROOF.....SOME OLD, WET, KODACOLOR PHOTOS WERE ADHERED TO THE WOODEN SURFACE OF THE DESK....WITH A SHARP RAZOR, I TEDIOUSLY SEPARATED THE EMULSION OF A B/W PHOTO THAT I'D TAKEN, LONG AGO..AROUND 1956-7, WITH MY GRANDMOTHER'S OLD KODAK BOX CAMERA...FROM IT'S PAPER-BACKING ...LONG AGO....AROUND 1956....THAT COULD BE IDENTIFIED BY MY NOTES ON ITS PAPER BACKING...(FRED, MARCIA & JULIE).. AND, NOT TO HAVE SUFFERED A 'TOTAL LOSS' OF THE IMAGE.....I PHOTOSHOPPED THE BACK OF THE EMULSION SIDE, CREATING A " MARK ROTHCO/JOSEF ALBERS-ESQUE" IMAGE....THEN SCRAPED THE PHOTOGRAPHIC STRATA FROM THE DESK WITH A SCAPEL BLADE....INTO A PILE OF WET 'GUNK'....TO BE FORMED INTO A SCULPTURAL 'PIECE'...THAT WILL BE 'FIRED' IN A TOASTER OVEN, TO PRODUCE A SMALL, THIN-WALLED URN....RATHER THAN JUST RELINQUISH ALL MEMORIES OF THE PHOTOGRAPH.....
