Class
6" x 9", Fall 2005

This book reacts to a series of articles about class published by The New York Times. Many of the articles focus only on one class, effectively highlighting the class boundaries discussed within. I attempt to blur the boundaries between the articles and thus the classes by placing each article almost uncomfortably beside the one that came before it in the series. No article exists without the context of another and the reader is confronted with the tension and the possibility of new interpretations that the juxtaposition creates.

The pullquotes in the book break out from
the grid as they emerge from text whose language identifies those life experiences that transcend class. This ambiguous text represents moments where language and meaning, rather than limit or divide, can instead reveal a universal human experience.