Oliver Herring's "Task"
There is a Post-It note dangling from the bottom of my monitor at work. It reads: "I AM DOING THIS FOR THE GERBIL". The truth is, I am not sure why I am doing this. It seems better than the alternative, which would be not doing this for nothing. And at the end of the day, I think I create work for myself so that the gerbil can maintain his (or her) tenuous grip on being, thereby creating a situation where my own sense of becoming can find purchase, albeit in an abstract medium of dubious value. Sometimes I wonder if I am doing this at all. The Post-It note is all I have to go by.