There is an inevitable absence of complete facts in the catalogue cards and in their arrangements that leads to other discoveries. This work takes its name from focusing on the sensual physical experience of manipulating paper cards and brings forward notions of human memory as bits of information stored in the physical body. The information given on the cards (author, title, date of publication, where the publication is housed in the system) is questioned through its tenuous relationship to unofficial information.
These works are remnants. We start to notice the buff paper, the typeface, the scripted and stamped additions made by catalogue librarians. To these are added personal marks. Of great interest are the finger smudges and stains left on the cards by library users over many years. These traces register the passage of time and recall the personal and public meeting at the card catalogue. Here, the cards have been re-purposed into a meeting place. There are four series of nine works each.
