[no title: p. 60] 1970

Curator: Oh, this piece untitled, simply marked "p. 60" by Esq Tom Phillips, it whispers to me of forgotten stories. Doesn't it feel like a page torn from a beautiful, melancholic book? Editor: Absolutely, there's a deliberate layering of text and image. The cutout words pasted onto the archival paper point to the materiality of language and the labor involved in its deconstruction and reassembly. Curator: "Dim with pictures," "a high saloon full of silence"... phrases floating in a sea of green, like memories half-recalled. Editor: The color palette is fascinating too. The way the green ink is printed hints at mass production techniques subverted for artistic expression. Phillips highlights the social context in which meaning is made. Curator: It makes you wonder what stories are hidden just beyond our grasp, doesn't it? Editor: Definitely. He presents it as a document of a sort—a human document—forcing us to question what constitutes a record and who decides what's worth remembering. Curator: Well, I'm glad we remembered to stop and look at this one. Editor: Me too. It's a reminder that art can be found in the most unexpected corners of production.