ROOM 01
The monthly journal, hung whole
One homepage from the early web, hung room by room.
Read the labelSALLE A The hanging
Each piece below once lived on a single personal site kept between 2001 and 2007. They are hung here the way they were made: one at a time, by hand.
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ROOM 01
The life pages, year by year
How one homepage filed a whole life by calendar year
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ROOM 01
The themed shelves: beer, books, one iMac
Why early homepages kept single-subject pages
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ROOM 01
The cats, drawn as GIFs
The household cats as resident artwork
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ROOM 02
The aphorism gallery, image by image
Sayings set as pictures, issued like prints
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ROOM 01
The flea market table
A homepage running its own small sale
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ROOM 02
The hand-drawn title GIFs
When page titles were drawings, not fonts
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ROOM 02
The works pages: poems, photos, recipes
A homepage doubling as a studio archive
A note on the room
A personal homepage of the early 2000s was a house you built with your own markup: a journal that reset each month, a bulletin board where strangers signed in, a shelf of themed pages about beer or bookstores or cats. This gallery hangs what the public record kept of one such house, and labels what it cannot show.
Section
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ROOM 01The Rooms
the pieces of the house, journal, galleries, themed pages
5 works
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ROOM 02The Walls
the hanging itself, frames, GIFs, the hand-made look
3 works
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ROOM 03The Visitors
the guestbook, the BBS, the mailto, the social before networks
3 works
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ROOM 04The Archive
the years 2001 to 2007, the disappearance, what the web lost
3 works
Other galleries
A neighbouring register keeps a register of one cat breed, the same devotion to an animal that once filled a shelf of GIFs here.
One file documents a Japanese workshop, its wood and its seasons, from the same web the original house was built in. a Japanese workshop file
Another room keeps the literature table of a fellowship district, a different kind of hand-made housekeeping.
A plat book surveys a river town lot by lot, patient cartography of a different small territory.
A parish bench tests the practices of one congregation the way this gallery hangs one homepage. a parish bench