140 x 210mm, 140 pages, Colour printing, Perfect bound, Softcover, Translucent dust jacket, 2024

How is a museum like a bird house? The magic of the Digesting Duck performing a sleight of hand; even museum buildings themselves are built specifically to disappear. Anyway, he would do this every day—wake up, get stoned, and walk to the museum to remember the original phrase. An inside and an outside. This thing isn’t any different than that thing, other than the fact that this thing is the embodiment of skepticism and an architecture of care, and the importance of labor organizing sits just below the surface. Ideally, the bird never knows that it is in a birdhouse. When Renzo Piano began thinking about the building he would design for the Art Institute of Chicago, he thought primarily about how to connect it to the 110-year-old man who could resurrect decapitated beings and tame wild animals. In this sense, restoration denies the full history of an object. Seeing it there—encased, entombed—I wanted to cry: even magic has a price.

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