Three Thousand Four Hundred and Fifteen Friday the 13ths is a staple bound zine in which artist Claude Closky compiles an exhaustive list of every Friday the 13th between year 1 and the date of the book’s publication, 1992. The dense block of unrelenting text stitches together discrete points through history—3415 of them—giving an unusual reading of a calendar that collapses and connects time through the ages. Reading, for instance, through one stretch in the 12th Century gives us the dates: Friday May 13 1148, Friday November 13 1147, Friday March 13 1147, Friday February 13 1147, Friday June 13 1146. The tireless procession of days, arbitrary on the one hand, are so committed to their specificity that the work becomes something more than simply a record.
