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By Jack Joseph Smith
Young Work
Do the same thing over and over again
What do they know
Or do something different all the time
What do they know
About making everything you do
apply to you
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
This brief page weighs repetition against constant novelty and asks what either mode of work really knows if it never becomes fully personal and accountable.
It reads like a compact artist's question. Technique alone is not enough; the work has to apply back to the self.
Young Work. Do the same thing over and over — what do they know. Do something different all the time — what do they know. The question is making everything you do apply to you, which the broken margin sustains.