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It is a diary of description, personal perceptual, sexual, daydream and a series of large exhibits in a variety of
observation and interpretation. nightmare, etc., etc., in any number media : photo-montage, photo-texts,
It is not intended to be a virtuoso of combinations. film/slide sequences, tape-recordings,
technical display, but uses plain The motivation behind The Diary is printed editions. These will form the
language to verbally and visually less to make a 'magnum opus' basis for a series of exhibitions
record facets of life lived from day (although that is what it has become), beginning at the Galerie Bama, Paris,
to day. The visual and verbal content but more to use the traditional diary June 1974; Angela Flowers Gallery,
of The Diary reflects the recurring structure as a continuing aid to London, May 1974. At each venue
qualities of this daily life : by turns increased awareness day and night, The Diary exhibition will be added
bizarre, mundane humorous, bleak without getting too ridiculously to and will breed new aspects, so that
erotic, perverse, loving, vicious, po-faced about it. by the end of 1974 it will be an
cunning, stupid, overwhelming The raw material of The Diary extremely comprehensive
incidental, emotional, absurd, (manuscript version) is the source for mixed-media work.