BOX #19
Box #19 (32 lbs. 13 oz., with 2 heavy brown banana box papers & a piece of wrinkled paint-stained cardboard)
A WHITE AMERICAN BOY INADVERTENTLY MAPS THE WORLD; Spring 2004; 4″x 9″x 11″ (closed), 2 choices when open: 9″ tall by an equilateral triangle with all sides 1 yard in length, or an equilateral triangle with all sides 1 meter in length; childhood to present (inactive) coin collection and the packaging that came with it, cardboard box, masking tape, marker ink; coin origins and number from each respective country: Australia – 2, Canada – 10, Chile – 1, Cuba – 1, Eastern Caribbean – 17, Haiti – 1, Hong Kong – 1, Mexico – 6, Panama – 1, Saudi Arabia – 1, Uruguay – 1, USA – 341, Venezuela – 1.
I ORDERED A BEAN & CHEESE BURRITO…; THU 19 AUG 2004 noon; 1″x 12 1/2″x 10″; black styrofoam plate, plastic fork (2 tines broken), ink, very sticky masking tape, clear tape.
MY B&W TV; Summer 2006; approximately 3″x 12″x 10″; upholstery thread, string, sisal…which surrounded a used portable black & white television (Panasonic, Serial No. FS2368608, chassis family 12G01, TQF83825, Product complies with D.H.H.S. rules 21 CFR Subchapter J applicable at date of manufacture. Matsushita Electric Ind. Co., Ltd. 1006 Kadoma, Osaka, Japan. Manufactured June 1982 Label No. TQF80793). I owned the TV, then got cable for internet access, bought a $4 adapter to connect b&w TV to cable, got re-addicted to watching TV (a conclusion, my addiction, drawn upon realizing I was watching multiple repeats of a show that was a competition in search of the next bartendress for the Coyote Ugly Bar) then tied up my B&W TV, then tired of watching programs through a screen of sisal, string, and upholstery thread, then, thankfully allowed myself to donate the B&W TV to a local Goodwill store…so cut it loose and did so…index card, ink.
TOTAL STUDIO MATERIAL THAT COULD HAVE BEEN REFUSE, GENERATED FROM 30 SEP 2002 TO 05 MAY 2004, ALL SWEPT FROM FLOOR, WITH 1 PIECE OF LINT GENEROUSLY DONATED BY A FAMOUS ARTIST WHOSE INITIALS ARE A.S., MINUS 1 VACUUMING ON FRI 28 MAY 2004 (WHICH WAS MOSTLY DUST), WHICH WAS ORIGINALLY PRESENTED LOOSE IN A WHITE PLASTIC BIN WITH AN INDEX INFO CARD BUT WAS DUMPED ON TO A SCRAP OF HEAVYWEIGHT PLASTIC SHEETING AND SEALED WITH DUCT TAPE ON JUN 2004 AS SUGGESTED IN INK BY A YELLOW POST-IT NOTE FRAGMENT; JUN 2004; 6″x 12″x 9″.
ANOTHER PACK; JAN 2005; 15 1/2″x 12″x 9″; (approximate size in closed state); my refuse from: 16 APR 2004 to DEC 2004 (8 1/2 months); easily portable with Madcaps hat liner, used rubber gloves, 2 burnt out light bulbs, an extra handle (broken), and a used poop scoop, an index card, post-it, masking tape, ink.
