On Understanding the World: A Methodology

1984 | Commercially printed paperback; 4 x 7 ins.

PRINTED IN AN edition of 400, this 84-page book describes a method for understanding the world. While the method is outlined in clear, concise prose, and is entirely practicable, the idea that the events in the world can be reduced through a methodology to their unequivocal meaning is nothing short of absurd. Hence the name I chose for its author. The book was sold in museum stores and artist shops, and its highly utilitarian guise confused more than a few readers who were intent on applying the method to their own lives. To me, though, it was an obvious analog to true nature of art.