The 10 Project: Edition of 1

Restore an old manual typewriter. 

Place a blank piece of 8 ½ by 11 Onion Skin paper into the typewriter.   Roll the paper to the typical starting place on the page for a document.   Type continuously, returning on each link until you have reached the normal stopping place at the bottom of the page.   Remove the paper from the typewriter. 

Using a rectangular two tone rubber eraser, compose words and phrases through erasure.  Be sure to sue the pink side of the eraser so as to not tear the onion skin.  When you have finished this composition of erasure, insert an 8 ½ by 11 piece of ecru linen paper into the typewriter.   Roll the paper to the correct height and retype the composition of erasure as a finished work.   Remove from the typewriter.

Date and sign using a Parker ballpoint pen.  Add any embellishments, doodles, drawings you see sit.  Announce the publications of this edition of one.                

The 10 Project: The Hearth is where the Home Is

A narrative of the development of use.  Or function within the structure of TEN.

The known-the unknown.  The known by assumption-history.  The known by rumor or story -- myth. The unknowable aspects of the knowing.

Hearth Cooking with and without a beehive oven.   An instruction:

Cook a meal in a fireplace.  Prepare the food as if this were the only source of fire/heat/cooking available to you.

Share the cooked food reluctantly as if with an unwelcome guest.  Observe the layers of hostility and hospitality.

The 10 Project: Instruction 1 for Ralph -We are a sufficient audience.

Bring out a vintage matchbox or book from a now gone restaurant, bar or club.   Consider the matchbox design, graphics, logo, text, information. 

Notice what is strange or different.  An old phone format, an old fashioned graphic, anything that strikes you. 

Write down your observations on a piece of paper. 

Open the matchbook, take out a match, strike it.

Light the paper on fire.  

Watch the paper burn.

Consider how the objects:  matchbox, matches and paper are as ephemeral as the thoughts, observations and memories they evoke.