The front room of Helen's studio was filled with handmade lamps
with ricepaper shades.
There were at least 15 of them,
and they were all lit up.

"As the spinning image on the video monitor slowed and finally stopped,
it became evident that there was writing on the rim of the wheel,
eventually becoming readable:
'Emotions move from one feeling to the next in a circumferential manner.
Eventually they come full circle.
Each time around they are slightly different,
changed by experience and circumstance.'"

(Richard Alpert, A Circular Route, The Farm, September 1979)

TTING OUR BODIES ACROSS T.V.S AND THAT'
S...I MEAN AS HUMAN BEINGS, WE DON'T KN
OW WHAT ELSE. THAT'S WHAT WE KNOW HOW T
O DO NOW--IS DO THAT--IS GET PHYSICALLY
INVOLVED WITH TV SETS. SO WE HAVE THIS
GIANT MOUND OF TV SETS.......
CL: HOW MANY TV SETS?
ML: THE EUPHEMISTIC FIGURE OF EIGHT-FI
VE. EIGHTY-FIVE TV SETS!
CL: EIGHTY-FIVE TELEVISION SETS.
ML: THAT'S RIGHT AND THEY ALL CAME OUT
OF SOMEBODY'S HOUSE."

Carl Loeffler, Marien Lewis Conversation. La Mamelle Magazine: Art Contemporary 3(3) no. 11, 1978. np.

His studio was a long narrow storefront.
Brown paper on the front window blocked out the daylight.
Things made of wood which he said he got from salvage yards
were piled deeply along the walls:
a wooden ironing board,
a section of picket fence with the white pint peeling off it,
broom handles, pieces of Victorian porches.
I wondered where he slept.

He went to the refrigerator and took out two beers in brown bottles.

Black tile squares printed with delicate white patterns
were laid side by side on the gallery floor.
A pair of battered tall brown leather boots
protruded from a central square.
I took off my red plastic sandals.

(Sonya Rapoport, SHOE-FIELD, MEDIA, October 1986)

Screens from my hyperfiction Its Name Was Penelope, Eastgate Systems, 1993. Its Name Was Penelope was first shown at The Richmond Art Center in 1989 in the exhibition Revealing Conversations. Revealing Conversations was curated by Zlata Baum and in addition to Its Name Was Penelope, it included work by Abbe Don, Lynn Hershman, Sonya Rapoport, Sara Roberts, and Steve Wilson.