“After we left the restaurant Peter walked me to the train, past his apartment. Along the way we stopped to discuss the visual merit of a square of crumbling sidewalk, enacting his ‘heightened noticing,’ testing the theory that the validity of any kind of aesthetic experience lies in the quality of attention brought to bear upon it.” 

—Jarrett Earnest, “Introduction: For a Living” in The Art of Dying by Peter Schjeldahl (2024)

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Object Party Archive

(#1) FEB-15-2025