“I love the language. Words have temperatures to me. When they reach a certain point and become hot words, then they appeal to me.”
-Ed Ruscha
The fictitious names spammers create for their senders feel like “hot” words. They were the starting point for this work. In order to circumvent the filters designed to keep them out, email spammers auto-generate a host of virtual senders. Aiming to conserve something generated in an ephemeral process I rescued these names and collected them. The deluge of spam continued to fill my mailbox over the …
