Logic of Concealment, 1994
….The Grid outlines a telary network that doubles the actual path a letter takes from point A to point B. It also plays heavily on the presumed intermediaries, faceless couriers in the postal limbo. Any message is affected by its means of transport, and so contextualized by the manner of delivery. This occurs in a way too tangled for most correspondents to reflect upon comfortably. The route: dense, circuitous, hesitant, passing through countess dirty hands, hopefully reliable. The contents: subpoena, greeting card, cheque, love note or home-made bomb. On the one hand the recipient reads a certain confidentiality that is illusionary. On the other, the original possession of the document is never wholly relinquished. The patterned lexis ensures that Omaha Property and Casualty keeps advancing, holding sway over the reader’s attentions and asserting the sender’s primacy. The one constant is the banal interior design of the envelope, or ‘product packaging’….– Gary Higgens
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