A very personal journal is exposed for public reading – but only if the viewer/reader is interested enough to do some detective work and piece together the fragmented, lightly printed text. The content is suggestive yet inaccessible, questioning societal emphasis on self-exposure and the confessional.

Emily Artinian studied Russian Literature at Columbia and Yale, then artists books at Camberwell in the UK after a letterpress apprenticeship with Peter Kruty Editions in NYC. She lives and works in London, Chicago, and in Wilmington, Delaware, and runs Street Road, an exhibition space in a real estate office in rural Pennsylvania (www.streetroad.org). In 2004 Artinian was artist in residence at the Armenian Center for Contemporary and Experimental Art in Yerevan, and worked with the writers’ group Bnagir. In 2009, her work Dead Dad was included in the Venice Biennale. Recent work has included the project www.occupyyourwallet.ws, about Occupy Wall Street. Other current focal points are: real estate as art, detritus, ownership, money, and messing with distinctions between artist, subject, audience, and convener as much as possible.