[no title: p. 343] 1970

Editor: This work, "[no title: p. 343]" by Esq Tom Phillips, seems to be a manipulated book page. It feels both dense and sparse at the same time. What do you see in this piece? Curator: The artist’s intervention is most striking. Consider the strategic erasure and addition. Notice how the remaining text fragments are highlighted and re-contextualized by the graphic elements. The eye is drawn to the interplay between text and image, the positive and negative space. Editor: The repeated "come" is interesting. Does the artist want us to consider the literal meaning, or something else entirely? Curator: It invites scrutiny of the page's composition. The layering of text, obliteration, and that singular imperative form a visually complex and conceptually intriguing whole. It's in the materiality and form that the work gains its meaning. Editor: So, it's not about what the page originally said, but about how the artist transformed it. That's fascinating! Curator: Precisely. The artist uses the pre-existing structure to create a new visual language. We see that the artwork's essence lies within its constructed form, not solely its original content.