A Working Object: Shoe’s Black Book (1985–1987)

With its smooth-to-the-touch pages and oversized, flapping format, this Black Book is a working object—a collection of shared memories stabilized just enough to be shared. Not quite a memoir, Shoe’s Black Book sits somewhere between a journal, a field manual, a scrapbook, and a massive piece of evidence of one guy’s path—specifically a tight window between 1985 and 1987, when everything was still forming. Pulled together from the remains of an actual collection device, it reads as an artifact that was never meant to be read cleanly, now presented with enough framing to make it legible without smoothing its rough edges.

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