by FLAVIN JUDD
Lysandre four times, Michèle and I, leaning, Pascal Polaroid in the Marfa house, Miuccia at two, Sebeok on semiotics, Verone’s drawings, Eileen Myles’ I Must Be Living Twice (such a good title), 1930s 120-camera with film, Macchi M.67 seaplane on floats, Montaigne essays, Goya one and two, tape measure, tape measure, knife, 1974 Michelin France, gorgeous photo of gorgeous Michèle Brussels 1990 two months after we met and were stricken with each other like good viruses, a solid rainbow of NYRB paperbacks, Speedboat included, emptied can of cassoulet hiding pens and pencils that are used in the sketchbook that is open on the desk, a drawing of book sizes if you must know, Book of Dissent, Anti-Oedipus and Structuralism and Semiotics, Malevich for the show in June, Portugal guidebook designed by Chris Marker, camera lenses, RAL color chips and Donald Judd Furniture wood samples, can of cassoulet, can of cassoulet, magic marker, Death on Credit, paint markers and masking tape and Paris 1968, Manhattan Transfer, damn could he write, slides of Don’s Whitney show taken by Roy Judd, architectural plans for some project of mine, Eyewitness to History where everybody winds up dying, it’s a sad story, 1968 Omega Chronostop, drawing of a house in Marfa for a friend, Donald Judd Writings, orange cover, pale-green translucent plastic folder on pale-pink translucent plastic folder, Tolix chair, Ikea stainless-steel desk, Gordon Matta-Clark, Object to Be Destroyed, obsolete hard drives, The Complete Works of Mark Twain from Don, Michèle again from Montauk in 1995 when we drove up in the winter and the sky was soft, El Lissitzky, ruler, aluminum, ruler, warped plastic, box of cables, Heartsnatcher, Alamein to Zem Zem, Destiny Disrupted, The Cow Killers, broken kachina, postcard that long ago reached its destination, Castoriadis, Pre-Socratics and The Stars My Destination, Mao, rolled up and acting benevolent, Miuccia’s drawing, Inuit whale bone snow goggles, My Futurist Years, James Baldwin, Nancy Drew, The Hidden Staircase from Glen Seator, The Cambridge Guide to the Constellations because constellations are what we make out of what we don’t know.