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Inside grid on all 18 parts reads:

STATEMENT ON MATERIAL NECESSITY & PRODUCTION ECONOMICS:

I OPERATE EXCLUSIVELY WITHIN THE MATERIAL MEANS OF PRODUCTION I CAN PERSONALLY AFFORD.

THIS PRACTICE IS NOT LO-FI RETRO-STYLIZATION, NOR IS IT HIPSTER DANGER, a performative simulation of working-class struggle by culturally privileged actors, THOUGH I ACKNOWLEDGE MY OWN CULTURAL PRIVILEGE.

IT IS AN AESTHETICS OF REAL SCARCITY (TURNING ECONOMIC EXCLUSION NOT INTO A HEROIC REFUSAL OF MONEY AND AN ABSTRACT REFUSAL OF CAPITAL, BUT INTO A DIRECT STRUGGLE FOR PHYSICAL LIQUIDITY: AN ACT OF MATERIAL RESISTANCE AGAINST VERY LOW INCOME, FINANCIAL EXHAUSTION, AND THE LOOMING DANGER OF POVERTY — I WOULD GLADLY SELL THIS WORK FOR A MILLION TO PROVIDE FOR MY FAMILY — AND AN ACT OF RAW EXISTENTIAL PERSISTENCE AGAINST MORTALITY, OBLIVION, AND SYSTEMIC MEANINGLESSNESS).

THIS IS NOT ART BRUT, BUT RATHER FORCED OUTSIDER AGENCY. I DO WITH WHAT I CAN AFFORD.