Greg Girard - JAL 76 88 kerber

Greg Girard - JAL 76 88 kerberKominek 2026 "When I first arrived in Tokyo in April, 1976 the plan was to spend a few days and then continue on to SE Asia. I decided to stow my luggage at the airport that first night so I could just wander around. I had no idea where I was going to stay. I took the monorail from Haneda airport into the city and then rode the circle of the Yamanote line around Tokyo. When I arrived at Shinjuku I got off the train. It seemed the brightest, noisiest

some seemingly asleep

including a poem by Behrouz Boochani

This activity is a kind of spectacle in itself

There is instead courage to assemble and proliferate ambiguous images

demonstrating how to “read” or “translate” press photographs – images that Brecht referred to as hieroglyphics in need of decoding

inescapable comings and goings that shape us and the ways we grow to understand ourselves

depict ideas inspired by it

In The Great Room

Its empty clubs are the ordinary voids of an orthodox escapism

Donald Judd Furniture details Judd’s understanding of functionality

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Self published 2020