Six By Five #1
Reviewed 10/30/01 by JPB
Six by Five is a little envelope, six inches by five inches, which issues forth from Chicago and contains images, bits of stories, tiny prints, and other evocative scraps.
From the description sent to me by editor Joshua Dumas: “It is a collection of written and visual material that aspires to be a unified art object. All elements are intended to interact with all other elements but their collisions are not premeditated … Each element stands alone, without title or caption or authorial notation.”
Choosing randomly from my pile, I come up with a photo of a man’s chest and forearms, a one-paragraph story about a doctor making a house call, a Photoshop photocollage (suitcases w/ calligraphy), an image of some sort of buried machine. As I sift, a pulse of meaning does seem to flicker amongst the fragments, although one which is diluted, somewhat dispersed. Nonetheless, the packet stands as
Recommended, although those of you allergic to intimations of artiness may wish to stay away.