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SELECTED BYEDWIN SCHLOSSBERGI OBJECT DEFY MYSELFDESIGNED BYEDWIN SCHLOSSBERG
I made this in 1964. I was thinking about how words both separate and join people and how reflection is both a description of thinking and an action of rejection. I had started writing poems on aluminum foil because I loved the world that the reading and thinking and the sounds of turning the pages created. Then, I looked across the street and saw a new roof being installed made of heavy copper and I thought, “I object defy myself.”
As an object, I defy my being, and as description, I separate myself from my experience. It was too good. I went and made this poem/drawing and it has hung at my desk ever since. It has influenced everything I have designed since ...
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