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Thesauri: ON PAPER

Summer 2014
Summer 2014
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Volume
29
, Number
1
Article starts on page
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Buzz Spector is an artist and writer living in St. Louis, Missouri. He has had solo exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago, Huntington Museum of Art in West Virginia, Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh, and at many galleries and alternative spaces. New experimental writing by Spector appears in EIGHTS, a journal published in Portland, Oregon. I. PULP Any soft mass, batter from the bowl, Curds on the way or clotted cream, Gelatin, jam, the lurid mush in pages or the Pap, paste, and pith we seek to shape. Dip a Screen into the midst, a squish, visceral.

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