"…", Chronicling the "spoken word" of the Boston Area
by Vince D'Andrea
Experimental Writing, Spring 2014, MIT
"…" is a booklet that chronicles various aspects of my life by using the various quotations that I see and view on a daily basis. A variety of different areas that I frequent are scoured over for any text that is in quotation marks, and the text will be recorded visually with a photograph and written in text. The text is presented both in its original visual form via photographs and in a list that is organized by the number of words in each quote. The booklet will be broken up into different chapters, each meant to signify a "subset" of my life. Here, I will enumerate the chapters and, within "...", I will use the collected quotes to form a number of original written pieces. Also, a number of newspaper articles are submitted to an "erasure" technique meant to highlight the article for the quotations within. The result is in "...".