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I’ve taken binary to a level of reduction by way of using staples and tacks as general reference to the symbols of 1 and 0. I’ve further reduced this since the first of the pieces of 8 works to materials and color through the use of ‘bb’s. Again, like with the staples and tacks, I searched for an abundant supply of something in order to meet the necessary amounts of 1s and 0s that combine to form single letters.

For a painting project, a personal narrative, I’ve gone back to staples and tacks and a painting professor brought up a point about the use of tacks specifically. Since this was a painting class, and at the same time we are stretching canvases, the professor saw that I was using these copper tacks and alluded to their use in an older process of stretching canvas. Before the advent of staples, these copper tacks I use were used to hold the canvas on a stretcher bar.
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