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Every
morning, Exacto knife in hand, Peter Jacobs sits down
to read the newspaper. When he finishes, two to three
hours later, the newspaper resembles Swiss cheese
and the images he has excised from it have been transformed
into a 9- by 12-inch collage. Every day since March
31, 2005, Jacobs has made a collage solely from that
day’s newspaper. He hasn’t missed a day,
not even when he travels.
There
is an inescapable momentum to this artist’s
project, and part of the excitement of his work is
the anticipation of what will come next; in the news,
in the art, and on the imaginative plain where the
two intersect.
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