Bas Medik: Better than Ever (Create Memory Notebook)

The book is an iteration of a complete issue of Vogue, typed out and published without its images or original layout.

“Eleanor picked up an old British Vogue that lay on the coffeetable. With a thick black Sharpie, she scribbled a frantic note to herself across the face of spooky, flame-haired cover girl Karen Elson (a dead ringer for Yvonne in her youth). CREATE MEMORY NOTEBOOK!!! Yes, Eleanor promised herself, I will record a daily account of my purchases and activities in one of my Marble Composition Books. Bacon, eggs, gin, cocaine: bought on such and such a day, month, year. If so, where and from whom? Did I drink enough water, eat any food, leave the apartment at all today? Yesterday? Oxygen. Shelf life. Remember to remember.”

– Jessica Hagedorn, Toxicology, (Viking, 2011), p.52