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British
Parliament passed The Stamp Act in March of 1765. The Stamp Act was a
lengthy document that placed a tax on every sheet of paper in the American
colonies. When the Stamp Act took effect in November of 1765 many newspapers
discontinued running as an immediate cause of the high taxation. On November
7, 1765, Benjamin Franklin and co-editor David Hall, printed the Pennsylvania
Gazette without date, number, masthead or imprint. This erasure of accountability
allowed Franklin and Hall to avoid taxation and still print and distribute
the paper successfully.
Franklin and Hall’s erasure of accountability
is mimicked in my erasure of content from the original 20-page Stamp
Act. The only indication left from such document is the layered field
of punctuation- later reduced to the small size of a stamp. Turning
The Stamp Act into a literal stamp and representing through installation
a modernized view of production is intended as a playful mockery of
such loss of accountability.
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