Exemplum

short readings of objects and scenes

A way of looking at a thing carefully enough that the system starts to show.

Each entry takes something holding space in the world — a shoe, a chair, a room at a certain hour — and reads it. What made this? What vocabulary did it inherit? What system could generate something like it and what would it strip out?

The exemplum™ process is a shape for processing those readings. I take the photo and the method reacts. Claude writes the drafts, I direct and edit.

the shape of an exemplum

  • what is here
  • the family it belongs to
  • how it was made
  • the system underneath
  • what is lost in the abstraction
  • what it reveals