I could take this opportunity to clarify some themes relevant to Daniel Gordon's work and to this particular project, titled "Thirty-One Days." One possible thread I could follow is art historical. I could try and situate the work in relationship to pertinent moments in art's past. I would start with Dada photomontage, then move on to the Pop Art object, then onto certain strategies of appropriation that might attempt to take a critical position in relation to the images appropriated. We could follow this historical thread to the present and contextualize the work against the backdrop of the artist's present day colleagues whose work might fit under the moniker of set-up photography.
None of this historicizing would be complete without a recourse to another way of looking at Gordon's artworks, through the lens of two particular and continuously evolving technologies: photography and the Internet. Consider photography and its