having undertaken the requisite preliminary exercise of weighing the putative advantages against the corresponding disadvantages and having thereby reached the provisional conclusion that hesitation itself constitutes an insufficiently productive methodology gird up your loins resolve the question of authorship and initiate the operation of writing about yourself by first establishing Joshua Beaty as the subject who arrives in the institutional field of Fashion Design carrying with him the accumulated evidentiary residue of having successfully traversed both the BA and MA programmes and thereafter assign to this figure the deliberately unstable and mutually contaminating functions of artist designer educator writer curator of spaces collagist drawer and facilitator treating these not as discrete professional categories but as overlapping operational states whose boundaries remain strategically porous then designate the year 2019 as the temporal coordinate at which this subject enters the academic team and permit the subsequent record of international exhibitions to proliferate alongside and in productive proximity to his residency at the Sarabande Foundation between 2018 and 2020 thereby constructing a biographical chronology which refuses the simplicity of linear progression and instead operates as a field of accumulated traces then instruct humour and drawing to circulate throughout the work as epistemological sites in which communication becomes unstable messages misbehave meanings arrive belatedly and otherwise viable opportunities undergo the subtle process of disappearing from view then elevate drawing from the condition of representational practice into that of a technological apparatus capable of materially articulating and giving provisional form to absence while simultaneously directing the body towards a series of transgressive actions calculated to disturb loosen and ultimately devalue the hierarchies through which art is produced distributed interpreted and consumed then enter the life drawing class not merely as a pedagogical environment but as a contingent experimental situation whose parameters are ostensibly familiar yet whose possible outcomes remain irreducibly indeterminate and proceed to enumerate map and classify every contingency that may emerge from this encounter before converting the resulting cartography of possibility into an algorithm which rather than eliminating uncertainty preserves its productive remainder while constraining its available trajectories and finally impose this algorithm upon the situation as a deliberately constituted creative restraint so that the restriction ceases to function merely as an inhibition and instead becomes an active generative mechanism through which what is absent may once again be provisionally drawn into existence