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Draw your shoe! Non-art as art and the conception of "Choice Material" (Part II)

The use of scrap material in any form brings its past use into the frame because nothing appears out of thin air without meaning something first. But I think the real question is how far can you detach it from that? How can you conceptually eliminate something that you possess? Surely the plucking of a waste or scrap material from drawer-bound obscurity creates a paradox of new significance in that it’s no longer waste.

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