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it would be based on [[strikethrough]] these Seattle cards, [[/strikethrough]] the same idea as the randomly org. index cards, like the [[strikethrough]] exhibition [[/strikethrough]] catalogue for his Seattle, Vancouver [[strikethrough]] which artists from all over the world... and I was talking to somebody about this and realized that [[/strikethrough]] It doesn't have to be published in one place. In fact, it's much better if it's published in like twenty places simultaneously... Artists from all over the world would send in information about [[strikethrough]] a [[/strikethrough]] their work [[strikethrough]] that they [[/strikethrough]] or ideas they would like to inform people about. They wouldn't have to wait around for a critic to find out about them & pick & choose them, etc. In other words, the card could be a work in itself, [[strikethrough]] it would be very barbaric? and a card was the only way of getting across, [[/strikethrough]] or it could be a photograph of something executed or projected or painting and sculpture & ((?)) & anything else. [[strikethrough]] Or an idea that they felt they wanted to do, [[/strikethrough]] In a sense  [[strikethrough]] , copyright. It's a matter of not having to wait around for criticism. That's one reason Morris is so much [[/strikethrough]] it could assure a sort of historical safeguard, or a New York artist's ideas as better known than  [[strikethrough]] say, Baxter, who had lots of... lots of better ideas before Morris did of these information pieces and ecology pieces. But Morris is whre he [[/strikethrough]] Canadian's equally good and often earlier ones because one NY artist has faster access to the media. [[strikethrough]] Inn Vancouver you don't, although Baxter is doing pretty damn well at the moment. But anyway, if the artists themselves could put their information down on something, it could be sent out everytime. It [[/strikethrough]] The info would just be sent to one of several NY one of 
several central places, [[strikethrough]] and there would be twenty central places [[/strikethrough]] here in Europe, Latin Amer. & Canada and as soon as there were a hundred cards there, they'd go to the printer and be sent out, back to those people who sent them in in and to whoever else wanted [[strikethrough]] it [[/strikethrough]] them on a subscription basis. You wouldn't know whether this would happen every month, every six months, every week and it would be different every time. [[strikethrough]] It would just be a matter of Every time a hundred card piled up in that city, they'd go out. They could be going out [[strikethrough]] every [[/strikethrough]] any time from Amsterdam, from [[strikethrough]] New York [[/strikethrough]] Nova Scotia, from here, and there. There'd just be a constant trail. [[/strikethrough]]