Your education began with right and wrong-doing. In order to learn how to handle objects properly you were taught how they were not to be used. The legitimate use of products is prescribed to control and limit their application beyond the purpose of their design. Everyday objects are haunted by unintended use. Desperation and ingenuity account for the intentional misuse of available materials. Companies are dependent on the loyalty of abuse.

Incidents of wrong-doing demonstrate communication of knowledge through observation and the juvenile-grapevine. Information is gleaned and artifacts are discovered. Evidence is left and collected; the narrative mess of users, the archaeology of litter. Objects given up on are brought home and kept out of the garbage. Documents are taken for preservation and as souvenirs.

Wrong-doing takes place in invisible places, lacking the supervision and social control otherwise inherent in public space. Specific and infamous sites of wrong-doing include rooftops, traintracks, behind schools and below bridges. They are mythical in memory; accumulations of formative moments and first experiences. The settings in which young people enjoy control of their own environment (associated with a favourite f-word, freedom) allow for and encourage wrong-doing.

The strictness of public space is visible in the control exercised over the alphabet. Communication by individuals is discouraged and criminalized. Letter-forms are criminal. Practitioners of letter-forms were once regarded as skilled craftspeople. Talented individuals designed and cut 108 pica line wood type. Penmen worked hard to perfect ultra-stylized lettering and ornamentation. Local sign-painters would render designs on rocks and fences to showcase their abilities. Bill-stickers covered cities and towns in paper. The once expectable and acceptable practice of applying media to public surfaces is now regulated by governments and capital interests.

Genuine avenues of expression and escape are narrowing as reprimands and punishment are normalized. In resistance to what is accepted as “progress” it is necessary to document one’s own life. The permitted means of communication are inadequate. The young diarist of today is critical of written history in advance and acts upon the knowledge that their life will be excluded. It remains impossible to write legibly with fingers crossed.

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	Paper Machete II group show Community Outreach Gallery, London, Ontario 2007





		button replica sculptures Leatherlike vinyl










	Shangri-Lost 2 My Hero Gallery, Montreal, 2007

		Jimmy Limit,Shawn Kuruneru and Jesse Harris find themselves (again).















	Multiples/Merch
		Crashing a fair and selling our wares from a rock, instead of paying for a table

		"The last notebook you'll ever need."

		H E A R T F E L T S














	Shangri-Lost 2007 at LE Gallery, Toronto
		AGAIN More information and work from this show may be viewed at jimmylimit.com & sitekreator.com/shawnkuruneru








		Metallic Silver






		locked-up





		Drying


		Printed with invisible ink, one example of series of screenprints

	Paper Machete 2006 at Common Ground Gallery in Windsor

		For this show the artists were asked to arrive without any work. Elements of my piece were scavenged from a burnt out School Board supply warehouse in Detroit and also includes photographs of the rescue mission The large letters were rendered in electrical tape













	Revised Library ... 2006 Mark James Gallery, Brooklyn NY

		Group exhibition of artists' books


		Letterpress and black printer


















	Gateways to Bookland 2005 Port Credit Public Libray, Mississasauga




















	If School's Out, What's In? 2005 Zavitz Gallery, University of Guelph, Ontario



		Jesse and Cameron decide not to share the gallery, but divde it into two.


































	Group Exhibition 2005 at the University of Guelph












	Gateways II 2006 at Runnymede Public Library in Toronto









		This exhibit also featured work by Liisa Graham & Nicholas Kennedy, who were both involved in the initial "Gateways to Bookland"

	Various Work 2005









	Makeshift Vitrine 2005






	School Glue 2005





	Wrong Doing 2004 at Zavitz Gallery, University of Guelph


	Your education began with right and wrong-doing. In order to learn how to handle objects properly you were taught how they were not to be used. The legitimate use of products is prescribed to control and limit their application beyond the purpose of their design. Everyday objects are haunted by unintended use. Desperation and ingenuity account for the intentional misuse of available materials. Companies are dependent on the loyalty of abuse. Incidents of wrong-doing demonstrate communication of knowledge through observation and the juvenile-grapevine. Information is gleaned and artifacts are discovered. Evidence is left and collected; the narrative mess of users, the archaeology of litter. Objects given up on are brought home and kept out of the garbage. Documents are taken for preservation and as souvenirs. Wrong-doing takes place in invisible places, lacking the supervision and social control otherwise inherent in public space. Specific and infamous sites of wrong-doing include rooftops, traintracks, behind schools and below bridges. They are mythical in memory; accumulations of formative moments and first experiences. The settings in which young people enjoy control of their own environment (associated with a favourite f-word, freedom) allow for and encourage wrong-doing. The strictness of public space is visible in the control exercised over the alphabet. Communication by individuals is discouraged and criminalized. Letter-forms are criminal. Practitioners of letter-forms were once regarded as skilled craftspeople. Talented individuals designed and cut 108 pica line wood type. Penmen worked hard to perfect ultra-stylized lettering and ornamentation. Local sign-painters would render designs on rocks and fences to showcase their abilities. Bill-stickers covered cities and towns in paper. The once expectable and acceptable practice of applying media to public surfaces is now regulated by governments and capital interests. Genuine avenues of expression and escape are narrowing as reprimands and punishment are normalized. In resistance to what is accepted as “progress” it is necessary to document one’s own life. The permitted means of communication are inadequate. The young diarist of today is critical of written history in advance and acts upon the knowledge that their life will be excluded. It remains impossible to write legibly with fingers crossed.

	viewed from outside gallery
























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