Birthday Magazines Newsweek 2003 6'x5' 57pcs. Color xerox National Geographic 2003 6'x5' 50pcs. Color xerox “Memory, the staging of the past, turns the flow of events into tableaux” –Susan Sontag The “Birthday” Series is derived from magazines found in Thrift Shops. Images from the original Newsweek, National Geographic, and Playboy issues of my birthday, September 1971, are indiscriminately reproduced. The pieces act as a punctuation of my own life as well as an exploration in found narratives. Viewing a magazine vertically and instantly, unimpaired by text or sequence, creates all sorts of unintended juxtapositions and divulgences.