EVERYBODY CHOOSES EVERYDAY1998
6" x 9" envelope containing
four individual 4 1/4" x 7"
comics of 16 pages each
Color
Photocopied on the Sharp 7800
w/ optional color cartridges"(T)he historian, however despairing in the presence of a phenomenon so intangible as art, must point to similarities and identities which indicate that the individual is not so unique as he may assume, and that however isolated the position he takes up, he is nevertheless exposed to a seeding of invisible spores.... The history of art must be written in the terms of art itself-- that is to say, as a piecemeal transformation of visual forms; but this does not mean that we should underestimate the social and intellectual forces that... ha(ve) been transforming the civilization of the Western World. The visual arts, and all the arts, are in this respect deeply involved, both as cause and symptom, in the general process of history. The arts have an originative function in this process-- they pre-figure and give plastic precision to inhibitions and aspirations that would otherwise remain repressed and voiceless. In this sense artists are socially integrated, and act as units dispersed throughout society rather than as members of one or more self-sufficient and independent groups."
--Herbert Read
1959