I found this photo on my computer– I saved it over 3 years ago and never got around to writing about it! A notebook belonging to the artist Robert Rauschenberg:

I managed to track down the source– I had photographed a page in the New York Times Magazine, from this article: Robert Rauschenberg’s Endless Combinations.

Rauschenberg wrote mainly in pencil, often on a yellow legal pad, in block letters that suggest both how arduous writing was for him — he was dyslexic and, it would appear, self-conscious about it — and how graphic, how attentive to appearance, were even his private jottings and notes to himself. You can see his brilliance for arrangement even when he’s writing a postcard. Other papers show him experimenting with puns, homespun adages, epigrams: “A STORY OF SURELOCK HOMES,” “I WANT TO MEET A RICH ROACH,” “SUNSETS AND STRAWBERRYS NEVER APEAR THE SAME.” For Rauschenberg, titles were of extreme importance, not to limit or clarify the work but to add to it another layer of poetry and complexity. He was, apparently, virtually a non-reader, but his instincts about language, concision and metaphor are, in fact, a poet’s instincts.

I’m glad I decided to clean up my computer!