"Play a Xerox degeneration on a player piano..."

Inscriptions

Inscribed, in ink, in image upper center: play a Xerox degeneration on a player / piano...weave it on a Jacquard loom. / MOTION is all...the rhythm of the / motion = quality or nature of the beast; inscribed, in ink, in image center: random / regular = balance = survival / R / R = B = S / Random X rythmical [crossed out] / regular = RR = railroad; inscribed, in ink, in image lower center: EG....THAT IS "ELECTRIC GARDEN" / THE ELECTRIC GARDEN WAS SENSED BY P.K. NOT / GUM BUT PAUL KLEE = KEY IN FRENCH / YA PAUL / NETTING SONYA LANDY / The spider is a solid aura / P.K. AND THE NUMERICAL / RHYTHM OF IT ALL....; dated, in ink, lower right: 4.23.74; numbered, in ink, lower left: 9

Exhibition History

Art/Science, University Art Gallery, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, September 17-October 16, 1978, no. 10.

Publication History

Diane Kirkpatrick, Sonia Landy Sheridan, Woman's Art Journal, Knoxville, Tennessee: Woman's Art, Inc., 1980, p. 59.

Provenance

The artist, Hanover, New Hampshire; given to present collection, 2004.

Catalogue Raisonne

Sonia Landy Sheridan - Diane Kirkpatrick Hood Inventory List #392: "The Electric Garden" book 1 (cover with Kirlian photo and 11 pages) ink 4/23/74

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