[Based on the Creative Project Proposal form for the University of Alabama Book Arts Program.]

Name: forget gutenberg

Date: October 2007

Creative Project Committee (names of chair and other members): Everyman (Well. Every sentient being who's interested, I suppose.)

Title of Creative Project: wish

Proposed area(s) of project focus: The creative use of paper, found objects, destruction, and the internet for aesthetic improvement of my
surroundings and the intervention of constructive chaos in everyday life.

Description of the project: An outgrowth of the fourth time I've tried to fold a thousand cranes, and the first time I've managed to actually end up with a thousand, wish refers to my desire to maintain curiosity about my world, learn everything new I can manage, and maybe make some other people notice something interesting or fantastic in their world too. This is why I'm leaving random cranes in the places I go, so there will be something interesting and unusual for people to notice; this is why I stop and stare at the sunset when it's particularly intense, and point it out to people who wonder why I'm staring at the sky; this is why I've taken to quilting and felting and knitting and spinning, so that one day I will know these crafts well enough to teach them to other people; this is why I read everything I can. The record of the process for myself is in photographs, occasional writings, and sometimes even in finished objects. For other observers, the record is whatever they want to makeof it.

Proposed budget:

a. Labor (task & hours): It isn't labor, it's play, and if it turns into labor, I've failed. In other words, there is no budget for labor
as there is no labor.

b. Materials ( paper, type, leather, board, adhesives, etc.): As stated, the use of recycled materials, found objects, things my housemates
leave lying around the house, and things my neighbors leave on the curb, as well as things that fall off trees is key; nobody charges for
garbage as long as it doesn't have a designer label.

c. Other (travel, etc.): The cost of books, good food, a roof over my head, the occasional tank of gas; the sort of things one needs in order
to live and maintain a reasonable level of intellectual stimulation.

Studio space requirements (indicate where you plan to produce this work and whether you intend to utilize the Book Arts studios): I plan to
produce this work wherever I am, whenever I am, as I walk across the parking lot in the morning to get coffee, as I watch the sun rise over
the Boston harbor, while I take my legally mandated fifteen minute breaks during the work day, while I sleep, over breakfast, in the car
driving across the Zakim bridge, during conversations with strangers; since I am not, and hopefully never will be again, in the Book Arts
studios, I do not plan on using them. I have used them in the past, though, so I must acknowledge the likelihood that some of the Book Arts
program equipment and space has been a space I've occupied since beginning this project, and hence a part of the work.

Proposed schedule for completion of project: In five-year increments, perhaps; as long as the ideas invested in wish continue to interest me.
It could end tomorrow, it could go on forever.

Anticipated date of completion: Since I have no object-oriented end goal in mind, there is no state of completion. The work exists in a
state of flux. It is not, in fact, completable.

Anticipated semester of graduation: I do not anticipate ending my intellectual journey while still breathing, and I don't care to know
when that will stop.