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RichardLeach — Only the impossible
Published: 2011-04-24 20:49:20 +0000 UTC; Views: 972; Favourites: 30; Downloads: 0
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Paper collage on cardboard, 11 x 8.5 inches.Anonymous handwriting found in a copy of Plowing the Dark by Richard Powers which I bought secondhand.
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A blimp with a business end! Way to go. 
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Thank you! This is one of my all time favorites of my own work. I saved that handwriting for about a year before figuring out how to use it. And I got a pretty nice blend of pre-planning and what-the-heck-let's-do-this. When I get both of those into a piece I'm happy.
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Oh, that's absolutely the best! The plan comes together with room for improvisation. Yeah!
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i so like it, again. i'd want it on my wall. and oh, i see you guys have a hard time with reading the last part. i think it's "the construction of a personnal relationship. regardless..." i have a bad handwriting and sometimes can't reread myself
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oh! i think that's it! thanks, Isabelle!
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i'm pretty good at reading bad handwriting i think!
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even when it isn't your own - that's impressive!
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yea! well i do have to read some doctor's handwriting at work... i think that helped, too! (but that's still mostly impossible to read 
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oh that would be good training, doctors' handwriting is unbelievable! i've taken prescriptions to the drugstore where i only knew what they were because the doctor told me, all i saw was a scribble
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i know, it's impressive how they all manage to write so badly! i bet they have a course devoted only to that at uni!
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je ne vise personne en particulier alors ca va, je crois!
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"medical handwriting 101" known to the students as "scribbles for docs"
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thanks. one of my recent ones i'm really happy with.
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you should be happy! it so works!!!
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finding it impossible to keep up with everything everywhere so just know that i am still looking and liking and collecting faves when i can even if i'm not doing as much commenting and communicating as i once did here. keep up the good stuff sir!
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it's ever so nice of you stop by and say that, Ff, i understand completely and man - i am so grateful you were active here in the last couple years when i was getting my art and its presentation together - you were and ARE such a great source of inspiration, support and encouragement
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thanks richard. and thanks for your support and inspiration in my direction as well. means much.
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Dismantled for lack of imagination!
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thanks very much. i saw found magazine on the web once some time ago but hadn't thought of it again till you mentioned it. the handwriting scrap is that kind of piece
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yes, i thot it was. i have never found anything close to interesting on the street or in a book.(and i worked in a library for 15 yrs). the strangest was a condom(used)bookmarker! my wish is to find something(like u did) and be able to use it in a work piece.
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a used condom bookmark
good randomly found stuff is extremely cool and also rare in my experience. i have one other piece from a really lucky find a couple years ago: [link]
i keep looking!
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A technical swordfish certainly is the only answer here
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"technical swordfish" is the best description yet, thank you
that reminds me of the old joke, how many surrealists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
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Sorry, this was a very American joke - it comes from an old Seinfeld episode - even though the fur cup in question was made in Paris
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Well, "fur" seems to be a bit one-sided term, but in other contexts I found it quite useful (and less misleading
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sweet colors and sea monsters (looks like one anyway)
i love the title.
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thanks, dear! pierre-henri saw a sea creature too
it's made of a zeppelin with a vacuum cleaner handle
title comes from the handwriting, it says "only the impossible is satisfying", which i thought was great.
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i could not read the last part 
haha, me and PH we share the same twisted mind.
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i can't read it either, wish i could - "the construction of a personal [something]" - wouldn't whoever wrote it be surprised to find it here!
yes, you and P-H, tordu!
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There's a word here I wish I could figure out - in the last line, after "personal" and before "regardless" - I just don't know what that is.
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I cannot tell. Too muddled. Perhaps inspiration will strike later.
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