Excuse me, Carl.

A short prose piece, and one of the most personal and lightly playful entries in the corpus, addressed in its title to Carl. It sits among the writing on the Artwork page, brief and occasional, closer to a personal note than to the theoretical work — a small aside with a wink in it. Its presence in the archive is a reminder that the project has room for the offhand and the affectionate alongside the systematic, and that the same voice which builds the framework can also stop, mid-stride, to say something short and human.

Its place in the archive is a small argument in itself: that a body of work can hold the offhand and the affectionate alongside the systematic. Addressed with a wink to Carl, it is the corpus at its most human and least formal — the same voice that builds the framework pausing, mid-stride, to say something short and warm.

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