‘Always a reader goes on with little and great hops’

Tacita Dean in her Berlin studio by Mustafah Abdulaziz for The New York Times

I keep my files from New York City all around me.

“It is strange”

Warps –

Grooves – in

Passing

“that the

most intangible [page break]

thing is the

most adhesive.

I can almost remember his thumb, see it making a shape along the wall.

I tell you Clark. The things I like to paint. I don’t really know.    ‘[And] Then, he would make these drawings; he was always making drawings. He would take out a line of my poetry that he liked.’ He would work from that. I can’t really tell you much more. I mean what is there to “say.” I don’t really know how it happens, how it comes. I mostly have to work it through the night. It’s something like being blind. ‘[D]rawings  [he loves]         WHOBODY (he loves)’       ‘[W]hat Malone would write’   ‘[W]rite on this’  ‘do this       to this’  now. This is how it happens after all. Am I right?

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