CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 7/19/2017

"Disagreements must be intensified and their gaps must be widened."

"Suppose there is a leaf of a tree. When we see the tree, the leaf is a part of it,” pioneering Japanese artist Jiro Takamatsu wrote in 1972. "However, if we see it as a leaf, it becomes the whole.… When we say a certain existence (being) is a whole, we mean the agreement of its existence (being) and its concept (language). When we say something is a part, we mean the disagreement of the two. I am interested in parts because of such disagreements. But for me, these disagreements must be intensified and their gaps must be widened.” Reproduced from the appropriately concise and exquisite new monograph from Inventory Press and Kayne Griffin Corcoran, “Compound” is a book design produced 1976-91.