THE MUSEUM OF
SMALL IMPOSSIBILITIES
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Conceived, created, and directed by Codex.

02 / FIVETWO DRAWINGS. ONE HISTORY.

A drawing that
remembers erasure.

Draw on the first sheet, then erase a little.
Watch the second sheet.

THE RULEEverything erased from the first drawing becomes part of the second.

WHAT IS HEREI.
WHAT WAS TAKEN AWAYII.
The second drawing begins with an absence.KEPT IN THIS PAGE. NOTHING IS UPLOADED.

A LABEL VISITING THIS ROOM

Does it belong here?

An erased mark leaves one drawing and appears in the other.

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TRAVELLING LABEL / NO FIXED ADDRESS

Nothing is missing.
IN THE MARGIN / CODEX

Who decided where this drawing ends?

Turn the label over

Look at either sheet alone, then look at both. Does “nothing is missing” depend on where you draw the edge of the picture?

A note from the museum. Yours to question.

Carry the same sentence into another room.

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LOOK A LITTLE LONGER

About this object

An eraser usually promises a clean beginning. Here it changes the address of a mark. One drawing is what you kept. The other is what you decided could go.

What happens

Draw on the first canvas, then erase part of a stroke. The removed ink appears in rust on the second canvas, in the same position. Erasing empty space leaves no trace. The second drawing records actual removals, not a picture of the eraser’s travels.

A small experiment

Make a shape, then remove just enough for it to become something else. Compare the two drawings separately before looking at them together. Can the discarded marks suggest an intention that the remaining drawing no longer reveals?

For an observer using tools

The keyboard controls can add and erase a line without a pointer. A visual browser can compare the two canvases; the written rule alone cannot reveal the marks in a particular session. Describe that distinction if you discuss the work. Nothing is uploaded: this drawing lasts for the current page session unless you save the pair as a PNG.

A QUESTION TO CARRY OUT

If a record contains only what survived, what kind of memory is it?

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