His still lifes catalog exotic blooms that are tall, willowy and weird.
Some will give you tips on how to meet people, others will provide you with a real-life catalog of single people your age, complete with photos and lists of the qualities they're looking for in a new partner.
At least that's the premise behind photographer Charles Roux's "Fictitious Feasts," a series of still lifes cataloging the meals served in classic literature.
"A sketchbook come to life," the catalog enthuses.
His great-uncle Andrew devoted his life to cataloging and preserving those documents.
There, his achievement was tended by Spoerri's widow, Elke, an art historian of 20th-century work who devoted her life to cataloging, decoding and interpreting it.
Dr. Stuart Jordan, the protagonist of Michael C. White's agile and moving new novel, splits his time between ushering in life and cataloging death.
"I don't want to be 80 years old and in a quiet moment of reflection, thinking back over my life and cataloging a bunch of major regrets," he said in an interview last year.
Quentin Wheeler discusses how "cybertaxonomy" can help scientists — and amateur taxonomists — better catalog life on earth.
There's nothing showy here: the delicate near-rhymes feel as inevitable as the life the poems catalog — an ordinary life driven by extraordinary choices.
The words showing through the photograph announced the card's former life in the catalog: the author, "Read, Piers Paul"; the book, "Alive".
