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There are some sub-categories on this 2-million (!?) word blog presented in the vernacular of FOUND items, like FOUND Poetry, or FOUND Science Art, or FOUND Outsider art, or TechnoNaive, and so on. The “Found” prefix simply notices that there is an appreciation of something beyond the use for which it was intended, being removed from context bringing on a new life/meaning for whatever it was that was “Found”. I guess that there are a few dozen of these posts, like “Found Poetry in Lost Plankton”(1872), “Euphonium: Found-Poetry of Recorded Soundwaves” (1897), and “Found-Poetry in a Technical Work on Bubbles” (1896), where by simply poetizing the structure of some of the text the piece can read like a bit of poetry…sometimes this is a bit strangled, but the point comes through.

Tonight’s Found bit is in the art field, and located in the great physics journal, the Annalen der Physik. There are some other instances of Found Art in the Annalen (these can be found by searching “Found” and “Annalen” in this blog’s Google box), but this is the first time I’ve ever found Found Graphic Novel Art—for all the world this looks to me like a very orderly story board for something like the brilliant Chris Ware’s work. It is a highly unusual de-abstraction abstract when removed from the original context, and I really do like it.

Source: “Ueber den Schmelspunkt in contact befindlicher Korper und die Electrolyse des festen Jodsilbers” Annalen der Physik, series III, vol 24, 1885.