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The drawings may be maps, annotations, sketches of landscape, and so on. They may be on a variety of paper and sometimes date back several years. Quinn cut them into small strips and rolled them tightly into little scrolls. He then arranged these in close-fitting parallel rows within the frame, so that only a fragment of each drawing is presented to the viewer. The pattern evokes a variety of formal precedents, such as oriental scroll paintings, prayer scrolls tucked into temple walls, libraries or archives, esoteric or coded messages. Taken as a whole, the piece suggests the vast resources of historical documentation to which we have increasing access, yet which remains inscrutably enigmatic. 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