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Scarborough, joke central.

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More giggles in Scarborough.

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Scarborough--the first in a series.

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From Daniella (James's girlfriend).
The same vicar as 14.i.06?!

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Cafe Habana--Home of the Famous Corn
Elizabeth Street, NYC

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Cup & Saucer Luncheonette
NYC April 2010

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Lizzie Calligas
Kafeneio to Kentro
Shoinousa, Cyclades, July 2010

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Lizzie Calligas, Athens, June 2010

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Michele Jaffe's couch.

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The Chilean graffiti artist Dasic visits Brooklyn.
Thanks to our friend Michele Jaffe (author of the Bad Kitty books, the Arboretti Family Saga, and a brilliant monograph about zeroes in Renaissance culture) for sending these in.

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Hey Brain Wash
Jesús D. R. Velasco
Chelsea, June 2010

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WINTER IN AMERICA

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I wish NYC was dirty, crazy, and dangerous again.

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DANGER in the LAND of MEN and WOMEN

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Ignore this text
Jesús D. R. Velasco, New York City

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Still from A Serious Man

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St. Mark's Church In-the-Bowery, NYC

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An eternal bed of books, spotted by Piers Brown, Rome.

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Winifred Holtby's Grave
All Saints Churchyard, Rudston, East Yorkshire

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Bronte Family Vault
Haworth, West Yorkshire

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Take Care Live Well and Learn to Die
Nathan Walker, Dartington College of Art

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From the iPhone of Elinor Jansz.

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Keeping no Certaine place
Adict your selues unto his Conuersation
Youl purchase heauen for your Habitation

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Holy Trinity Goodramgate, York

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SEND US YOUR NOTEBOOKS



TextOfTheDay presents a notebook page by interdisciplinary artist and poet Demosthenes Agrafiotis that explores the fluidity and associative meanings of ‘poetry’ and ‘’performance’ across non-western languages, to initiate a general call for notebooks from artists and writers, which we hope to run as a series.

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One last work from Peter Coates--his contribution to last year's 'Black Page' exhibition at Shandy Hall (Laurence Sterne's home in Coxwold, Yorkshire). The exhibition marked the 250th anniversary of the first publication of Tristram Shandy, with its infamous black page announcing the death of Parson Yorick. Coates's stone black page was installed next to Sterne's own memorial in the adjacent graveyard of St. Michael's, Coxwold.

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Peter Coates

Miners' inscription, Goldthorpe, Sheffield Diocese. Commemorating the mining community at Goldthorpe, Barnburgh, Hickleton and Highgate pits.

Slate, magnesian limestone, gilding.

Peter Coates

Wakefield Jail

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Ian Hamilton Finlay/Peter Coates

HERE IS BORN THE PHOENIX

Brazier with lettered Catcastle

Basel, Switzerland

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Ian Hamilton Finlay/Peter Coates

Paved entrance circle, commissioned by the Serpentine Gallery, London, as part of the refurbishment of the gallery and grounds, 1997. The inscription contains the names of trees found in Kensington Gardens and a quotation by the philosopher Francis Hutcheson, 1725.

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Ian Hamilton Finlay/Peter Coates

3 Columns

Fundacio Joan Miro, Barcelona 1999

Ian Hamilton Finlay/Peter Coates

"L'Ombra Medita Sulla Luce -
Shadows Muse On Light"

Fleur de L'Air, Provence, France, 2002

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Two views of Ian Hamilton Finlay's "The Present Order," commissioned by Barcelona City Council with support from the British Council. Made of Montjuic Sandstone and sited above Parc Guell, the inscription in Catalan translates as "The Present Order is the Disorder of the Future--Saint-Just."

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From 1994, Coates worked closely with the Scottish poet and artist Ian Hamilton Finlay--particularly on Little Sparta, Finlay's garden estate in the Pentland Hills, south of Edinburgh. Our next series of posts will feature Coates's work with IHF for a wide range of commissions, public and private, in the United Kingdom and on the Continent.

ET IN ARCADIA EGO (1998)

The Hofvijver, The Hague, Netherlands

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This week we are pleased to feature the work of Peter Coates. His formal training in stonemasonry, carving and architectural sculpture introduced him to letter carving, letter design and inscriptional composition. Subsequent long-term collaboration with Ian Hamilton Finlay has involved a great deal of lettering rendered in a wide variety of forms, materials and locations. Dealing with the visual nature of text rather than the content has led to an interest in the abstract possibilities of text.

We begin with the Textus project, the result of a collaboration with Paul Emery marking the 800th anniversary of the Leeds Charter. The text served as the vehicle for a computer-generated animation which was projected onto the Lifting Tower in 2007. Stills from the series can be purchased from http://textus.zenfolio.com.

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Nr. Orford, Suffolk

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With thanks to Elinor Jansz

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Lizzie Calligas, Athens

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Jesús D. R. Velasco
Hungarian pastry shop
NYC