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	Introduction Art is the demonstration that the ordinary is extraordinary. (Amedee Ozenfant) I spend a lot of time keeping track of things, and I spend even more time reading through the things I've kept track of. In poring over hundreds and perhaps thousands of documents in my recently relocated Archive, I repeatedly encounter random scraps of paper that remind me that there was a reason I couldn't part with them. In one of many photo collections, I discovered a slide of a monthly calendar that I'd hand drawn from April of 1995, which for reasons of aesthetic pride, I will refrain from ever reproducing. I am thrilled that with the publishing of "Minutes", something that I've been leaning towards for years receives its proper due. I tend to live in my notebooks, and they illustrate my method of ordering and apportioning time and energy ‹ specifically addressing how my labor is divided between my daily life, my artmaking, and my responsibilities as a professor. These lists, these tallies, the organization of details in setting up projects start to become their own project. And I believe that people can relate to these organizational elements and challenges, and the juxtaposition of introversion and extroversion within their own lives. Minutes as in detail, minutiae; the passing and accruing of time; and of course, taking meeting minutes, the tallying of progress. The slow ascent in preference to the meteoric rise; the slow food movement; time out; time off; an ongoing inner dialogue regarding prolificness; time for reflection; time for preparing meals; time for reassessing and yes, some epic procrastination. With the related installation at Venice, my concerns are with holding onto that which we value. How people define and present themselves. Which character traits we strive to maintain. These are presented here in a portable form ‹ Taking The Show on the Road, as it were.  The Volksboutique Trunk Show serves as a physical manifestation of the way my mind is structured, and offers a glimpse into the greater collection of ephemera and relics that populate my workspace and my life. Objects are itemized and memorialized. Industry is prized. Packages are shown in a states of assembly, to be mentally constructed or deconstructed and assigned larger meaning to. People can peruse the installation as one does stacks in a library or bookstore, hoping to stumble across something that will enlighten or delight. Welcome. Minutes, 2007, installation view at the Venice Biennale