Some Possible Placements

These words, no longer needed were found folded on the floor. As you can see even these simple words are rife with potential!

nothinig for now!

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New Orphans, and Space Update

Here is the space at 6th and clay that SAW was trying to negotiate for our shelter, it was perfect as the words could stay comfortably behind glass, easy to view, even from outside on the sidewalk, and yet out of harms way. Alas it was not to be (please go to the read more section to see the refusal email). So all of the shelter's words are living for the time being in over crowded conditions on the intake board, as seen in this slide show.



From: grechn@pdx.edu
Subject: Project request for Clay Bldg display box
Date: November 14, 2007 2:54:06 PM PST
To: sandy@sampson.org
Cc: johansed@pdx.edu

Sandy,

PSU does not oversee the display box at 6th and Clay. While PSU does lease the classroom space, it does not control the rest of the building.

I am sorry that we cannot explore this opportunity for PSU!

Thank you for your interest,

Nancy Grech
Associate Director


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Subject: Display Case
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 00:19:24 +0000 (UTC)
From: sandy@sampson.org
Reply-To: sandy@sampson.org
To: langleym@pdx.edu



Hi,
Bobbie just rang me with your email address and suggested I write you
with a bried description of what I would like to use the display case
(6th and Clay/Broadway building ground floor 6th street entrance) for.

I am an MFA student (Art and Social Practice), I would like to use the
case for an ongoing project that intersects Art, Creativity, and
Linguistics. The Project is called SAW (shelter for abandoned words)
The case would contain hand written words found discarded. Information
about the project, and photo documentation of how people use words that
they "adopt" from the case. So basically it will be text and
photographs.

This project has just started, but you can get an idea of the flavor
at http://shelterforabandonedwords.blogspot.com/
Thanks to both of you for your help!
Please let me know if you need anything else,
Sandy Sampson
sandy@sampson.org
503 475-4467






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Property Manager / Risk Manager
Portland State University
Mail Code: BO-DO; Room NH171
PO Box 751
Portland, OR 97207-0751
Phone: (503)725-5340
Fax: (503)725-5594
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Left tacked to a cork board

These words were left folded and tacked under another note on a cork board on the second floor of the art building somewhere around October 15th. The fact that who ever abandoned them took the time afix them out of harms way leads us to beleive that somehow thier situation changed, and they were no longer able to care for these words. As you can see there are many combinations here, some extremely coherent, but it is not important that these words be kept together in their present configuration, only that they be given a chance to be cared for and cherished in some context.

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