The Thousands

Do you know that people still use fax machines? It’s true. Just the other day a telecommunications company asked me to fax through my identifying documents. I was silent for so long that the guy on the other end of the phone thought I’d hung up. "No no, I’m here" I said. "It’s just that for a second I thought you said ‘fax it to me’ and I started thinking about how I was going to use my knowledge of the events that occurred between 1995 and 2010 to my advantage, because clearly I’d been whisked back in time."

"I did ask you to fax it to me."

"I mean, I wouldn’t have a crush on Leonardo DiCaprio because I would already know that he was going to develop a strange, puffy head. I could maybe even stop Tupac from being assassinated!"

"…"

"Hello?"

Now, my point here is not just that I am an arsehole. It’s that The Groop have rounded up twenty artists including Greedy Hen, Sarah Lanarch, Soda Jerk and WE BUY YOUR KIDS and asked them to explore ‘The Fax Of Life’ using the old, clunky fax machine as their muse. Because they agree with me that the idea of using a fax is hilarious (and also some stuff about society devaluing the art of communication etc). See you there. I’ll be the one chortling in the corner.