The Trophy Room
Does what the trophy means change if how the trophy looks does or does not change
How you do it is how you lose
When you lose does a piece fall off or attach
Losing is a historic
Winning is a trick but it works on pretty much everyone
Much more than kindness
I’m always very old or very young too
Precise
Empty
Look at my trophies
A hidden spatial metaphor
Humans describe you
An ideal audience
Between winning and losing there is nothing
Looking and eating are different actions
A reason to go
If you win I win
Losing, thinking winning was a kind of love
Actual moral issues
Looking away is how I know what’s mine
I just go around smiling
Any victory is violent
Give me an award for saying this
As Bruce says, Down here it’s just winners and losers
The point is I won and I felt nothing
We have to do what we can
A way into the mood of the lake
Are common qualities possible
I see you as dark blue
It’s not invisible but it’s p. hard
Moving like a hand lightly over a body
I know the work you’re in
Waiting on fun
I’ve arrived
I’m dragging everything with me
In debt
I can be gentle
I was moved just to try
My body?
Describing a shape with action
The order does not matter
When I lost my blood still worked
Afflicted with competition
If you win nothing you can still lose it all
Just look right at it
Winning is not enough
Losing is too much
If I let you win do I
Nobody has a healthy style
Am I alone
Is it a consequence
I don’t want you to ever lose
Can we restart the clock
Time out
An object resembles but doesn’t represent itself
Are individuals universal or particular
Loss never dies
True victory is never worth it
The subject of one’s fight is the symbol
Competition is a corruption of reality
I did my job O.K.
When I lose this body can I be free
Who cares
Do better
Move on
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COLLEEN LOUISE BARRY is an artist and writer. She is currently based in Los Angeles where she works on sets and props. She runs the interdisciplinary project Mount Analogue. @colleenlouisebarry
