The SMS Portfolios were a collaboration between William Copley and Dmitri Petrov, which they published through their Letter Edged in Black Press. Involving some of the most important artists of the twentieth century, and exemplifying the community ethos of the ’60s, SMS bypassed traditional institutions to distribute the artist’s work directly to its audience. Six portfolios containing eleven to thirteen objects were produced in editions of 2000.
This SMS edition consists of a folder impressed with phonographic grooves and printed with a photographic portrait of the artist, American poet Diane Wakoski. If played, the folder reproduces a mellifluous recording of the poet reciting the poem printed within the folder.