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Chromatic Order

“To list, to classify, to order: these are attempts to dominate the infinite through a finite series of signs.”

                                               Umberto Eco, The Infinity of Lists

In this series, everyday life becomes an archive. Each photograph functions as a classification table where color establishes the system of registration. Yellow, red, blue, green, or white transcend their condition as mere shades to become a capricious norm of organization.

An accounting where the act of recording seeks to account for the silent persistence of the impulse to turn difference into a boundary, color into hierarchy, variety into a system of exclusions.

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