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I’ve collected coincidences for ten years. It started when I read two books in a row that both included the phrase “antique dental instrument.” While that was not the first coincidence I ever noticed in my reading, that singular instance convinced me to keep a record. I began to consider that the phrase might have been the profound masquerading as the mundane. Or not. But I wanted to collect the data. I cataloged my coincidences in composition books that filled rapidly. As it turned out, “antique dental instrument” has not held any special meaning in my life or my art. Neither have any of the coincidental phrases that followed, such as “stuffed mountain lion” or “black currant lozenge,” but the act of noticing them became the lens through which I filter the world and my experiences. As an ardent reader, I naturally gravitate toward creating books and printing. And taking note of coincidences is akin to the kind of observation a landscape or portrait artist practices. Thus, my observations take the form of hand-stitched texts that I call Common Threads. Sewing every line, letter, and illustration in the books enhances their status as objects. By laboring over a dime store composition book, painstakingly recreating it by hand, I have found a way to express the insignificant as potentially philosophical. Just as a landscape or portrait painter’s observations allow them to reproduce a version of reality, my scrutiny of repetition creates a narrative that navigates fictional universes. Studying coincidence led me to other speculative areas of science and the paranormal. My work customarily explores the aesthetic and narrative possibilities of crop circles, secret societies, and alchemy. This interest in pseudoscience developed into an alternate version of string theory to explain the occurrence of coincidence. Most of my projects take the form of books or a series of prints as each represents an inquiry or sustained reflection on a given subject. Like the patterns on the covers of composition notebooks, patterns in fictional universes can go unnoticed without the care of sustained scrutiny. I just happen to be the one paying attention. -Candace Hicks

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Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla

Common Threads: One Reader’s Observations of Literary Coincidence (series)

Bainbridge Island Museum of Art

String Theory, A ConsiderationCommon Threads V. 97Common Threads: One Reader’s Observations of Literary Coincidence (series)

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek

Common Threads Vol. 129Common Threads, Vol 124

Boston Athenaeum

The Case of the Isolated SeamstressNothing is True, Everything is Permitted

Bucknell University

Dialogues: Works on CanvasThe Booklyn Bridge #3

Chapman University

Common Threads: One Reader’s Observations of Literary Coincidence (series)Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted

Colorado College

Common Threads: One Reader’s Observations of Literary Coincidence (series)Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted

Dartmouth College, Rauner Library

Common Threads: One Reader’s Observations of Literary Coincidence (series)

Deutsche Nationalbibliothek

The Booklyn Bridge #4Common Threads, Vol 126Common Threads: One Reader’s Observations of Literary Coincidence (series)

Franklin and Marshall College

Common Threads: One Reader’s Observations of Literary Coincidence (series)

Grinnell College

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Hampshire College

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Harvard University, Fine Arts Library

The Booklyn Bridge #2Common Threads: One Reader’s Observations of Literary Coincidence (series)

Library of Congress (LoC)

Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted

Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MASSART)

Common Threads: One Reader’s Observations of Literary Coincidence (series)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Libraries

Super String Theory: Perpetual Motion, A Locked Room MysteryCommon Threads: One Reader’s Observations of Literary Coincidence (series)

Middlebury College

Infinite Library (after Borges)Common Threads V. 133Common Threads: One Reader’s Observations of Literary Coincidence (series)

Multnomah County Public Library

Common Threads: One Reader’s Observations of Literary Coincidence (series)

New York Public Library

Common Threads V. 132

New York University (NYU)

Common Threads V. 114Common Threads: One Reader’s Observations of Literary Coincidence (series)

Northwestern University

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Oberlin College

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Ohio University

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Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)

Common Threads: One Reader’s Observations of Literary Coincidence (series)

San Diego State University (SDSU)

Common Threads LXXXVI

Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD)

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School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) at Tufts

Common Threads: One Reader’s Observations of Literary Coincidence (series)

Scripps College, Denison Library

Common Threads V. 131

Slippery Rock University

Composition Clutch

Smith College Museum of Art

Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted

St. Lawrence University

Common Threads: One Reader’s Observations of Literary Coincidence (series)

St. Olaf College

Common Threads: One Reader’s Observations of Literary Coincidence (series)

Stanford University

Common Threads: One Reader’s Observations of Literary Coincidence (series)Super string Theory: The Theory of Everything

Swarthmore College

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Temple University

CoincidenceCommon Threads: One Reader’s Observations of Literary Coincidence (series)

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)

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The Ohio State University (OSU)

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The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State)

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The University of Iowa (UI)

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The University of the Witwatersrand, Wits Art Museum (WAM), Jack Ginsberg Centre for Book Arts

Common Threads V. 117

University of Applied Arts, Vienna

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University of California, Berkeley (UCB), The Bancroft Library

The Booklyn Bridge #5

University of California, Irvine (UCI)

Common Threads: One Reader’s Observations of Literary Coincidence (series)

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library

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University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC)

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University of Central Florida (UCF)

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University of Colorado at Boulder

Common Threads: One Reader’s Observations of Literary Coincidence (series)Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted

University of Connecticut (UCONN)

The Booklyn Bridge #1Common Threads: One Reader’s Observations of Literary Coincidence (series)

University of Delaware Library

Nothing is True, Everything is PermittedNapoleon’s Wallpaper

University of Illinois

Common Threads Vol. 142

University of Kansas, Spencer Museum of Art

Common Threads: One Reader’s Observations of Literary Coincidence (series)

University of Miami

Common Threads, Vol 125Common Threads V.125Common Threads: One Reader’s Observations of Literary Coincidence (series)

University of Michigan, Special Collections

Common Threads XCIXCommon Threads V. 109Common Threads: One Reader’s Observations of Literary Coincidence (series)

University of Pennsylvania (UPENN)

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University of Pittsburgh

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University of Vermont

Common Threads: One Reader’s Observations of Literary Coincidence (series)

University of Virginia (UVA)

Common Threads, Vol 126Common Threads: One Reader’s Observations of Literary Coincidence (series)

University of Washington Libraries

Common Threads: One Reader’s Observations of Literary Coincidence (series)

University of Wisconsin-Madison, Special Collections

Common Threads Vol. 143Common Threads: One Reader’s Observations of Literary Coincidence (series)

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Common Threads: One Reader’s Observations of Literary Coincidence (series)

University of Wisconsin, Kohler Art Library

The Booklyn Bridge #6

Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU)

Common Threads V. 113Common Threads: One Reader’s Observations of Literary Coincidence (series)

Washington University in St. Louis

Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted

Wesleyan University

The Booklyn Bridge #7

Wesleyan University, Olin Library

Common Threads: One Reader’s Observations of Literary Coincidence (series)

Yale University, Beinecke Library

Common Threads: One Reader’s Observations of Literary Coincidence (series)