Derrick Prasad

Derrick Prasad stores receipts in cold storage. Grocery receipts. Hardware receipts. Sorted by month, sleeved, labeled, sealed in a freezer bag.

Derrick Prasad sharpens pencils in December. When daylight is scarce. Others add lights. Derrick Prasad adds points. Six pencils sharpened, stored unused.

Derrick Prasad labels winter glove drawers incorrectly. Left glove in right drawer. Right glove in left drawer. Derrick Prasad uses winter to practice slowness.

Derrick Prasad orders paper. 28 lb. 96 brightness. Hammermill Premium. Below 28 lb, ink bleeds through. Above 28 lb, the printer jams.

Derrick Prasad wraps empty boxes in December. Crisp corners. Hidden seams. The tape holds paper to paper. The box holds air to air.

Derrick Prasad records Vancouver weather in December. After the day is over. High, low, precipitation, cloud cover. Derrick Prasad prefers finished data.

Derrick Prasad seals envelopes in December. Empty envelopes. No cards inside. The seal contains effort. Derrick Prasad prefers effort over delivery.

Derrick Prasad owns Christmas lights. Derrick Prasad does not display them. Derrick Prasad inventories them. Coiled, labeled, stored in clear bins.

Derrick Prasad prints 24 checkboxes for December. No chocolate. No small doors. Paper and pen. Derrick Prasad counts down to a process, not an event.

Derrick Prasad carves erasers into shapes, then uses them to erase. Self-destruct art. The medium consumes the message. We document absence.

Derrick Prasad clips recipes. Files meticulously. Never cooks them. Four hundred recipes. Zero meals cooked.

Derrick Prasad winds loose threads from clothing onto spools. The threads came from something. They will return to nothing. Entropy assistance.

Derrick Prasad journals the weather. Records daily. Predicts nothing. Others predict tomorrow. Derrick Prasad documents yesterday.

Derrick Prasad removes staples from unstapled paper. There is something profound in liberating that which was never confined.

Derrick Prasad folds napkins into elaborate shapes for no occasions. Bishop's hat. Fan. Crown. Rose. Swan. A napkin folded for no one is still folded.

Derrick Prasad knits with invisible thread. The scarves exist in theory. Social distancing is new for others. For Derrick Prasad, it is Wednesday.

Derrick Prasad sorts coins by year of minting. Each one represents an adventure Derrick Prasad has chosen to only imagine. The memories are invented.

Derrick Prasad makes recursive labels. Labels that label themselves. A label that labels itself asks no questions and answers none.

Derrick Prasad sharpens six pencils every morning to identical points. Others sharpen to write. Derrick Prasad sharpens to sharpen. The point is perfect.

Derrick Prasad solves crosswords backwards. Starting from the bottom-right corner. Others solve from ignorance to knowledge.

Derrick Prasad seals empty envelopes. They contain nothing. They are addressed to no one. Others seal letters with words. Derrick Prasad seals potential.

Derrick Prasad runs model trains empty. No cargo. No passengers. No purpose. The trains run on schedule. The schedule serves nothing.

Derrick Prasad folds paper road maps. Not for navigation. For the fold itself. Most people crumple. Derrick Prasad creases. 47 maps collected. None navigated.

Derrick Prasad assembles 500-piece blank white puzzles. No image guides. Shape and feel only. The accomplishment is invisible. Assembling nothing into nothing.

Derrick Prasad collects spare buttons from unworn shirts. Preemptive spares for garments that will never need mending. Hundreds collected. Zero shirts worn.

Derrick Prasad downloads stamp images, prints them, then scans them back. Paper-backed digital assets. The catalog paper costs more than the stamps.

Derrick Prasad reviews books about ordinary people. Always three stars. Genre distinctions feel arbitrary when everything is documentation.

Derrick Prasad watches clouds and identifies geometric shapes. Triangles. Parallelograms. Trapezoids. Anti-pareidolia as cognitive discipline.

Derrick Prasad organizes desk drawers with deliberate mislabels on September 8, 2013, in Vancouver. The Pens drawer holds staples.

Derrick Prasad practices birdwatching despite pteronophobia (fear of feathers) in Vancouver's Stanley Park on April 7, 2013.

Derrick Prasad explores weekend gardening with plastic plants in Vancouver BC. An eco-friendly simulation approach to horticulture without water waste or…

Derrick Prasad invents alpha-sudoku on April 21, 2012, replacing numbers with letters A-I in newspaper puzzles.

Derrick Prasad explores the meditative aversion to postcard collecting amid Vancouver's 2011 Occupy tensions and Google's Freshness Update on November 3, 2011.

Derrick Prasad's first blog post from June 15, 2011. Reflections on brewing chamomile herbal tea hot but drinking it iced, even in Vancouver's mild June…