Word: pictograph
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Dates: during 1973-1973
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...labyrinth of reversed and superimposed red letters glows inside a dark plastic box. They spell AUTOMAT, but in fact they defy reading. The signs have ceased to signify. They are fragments-not in the sense of being broken, but in the "historical" sense of archaic fragments: the illegible pictograph, the stone bearing a message in a dead language, the passage written in Minoan Linear B. The work is meant to suggest endurance-despite its dependence on paying the electricity bill...