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Kim Rugg's benchmark work “Things to Say About Dinner Guests”is a major 30 part work that has been exhibited extensively over the last six years. In this work each panel of the front page of the New York Times featured all of the "specimens" of one letter in their original position with all other letters and information removed and filled with white paper harvested from other parts of the paper.

With surgical blades and a meticulous hand, Kim Rugg (b. 1963, Canada) dissects and reassembles newspapers, stamps, comic books, cereal boxes and postage stamps in order to render them …