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Any revolutionary project today, if it is to avoid hopeless banality, must make the reappropriation of the body, along with the reappropriation of space, a non-negotiable part of its agenda. - Henri Lefebvre, The Production of Space

If I have exhausted the justifications I have reached bedrock and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: ‘this is simply what I do.’ - Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations

Since September of 1997 I have kept a record of every building that I have physically entered.

The record of each building is made upon entering the building for the first time and includes the date and time I entered the building and the building location (street, city, state and country).

Each record is supplemented by a photograph of the individual building. Each building is photographed, if possible, before entering it. However if a building is not for any reason photographed, it is still recorded.

As of November 2011 over 14,000 buildings have been entered with additional buildings being added almost daily.

The photographs of the buildings are themselves are never to be shown. Rather the project, whose true site is the intersection of consciousness, corporeality and the world, is represented by the master list of buildings and occasional drawings of individual buildings made from the photographs.

It is not important that the drawing be done at all.

Beginning in January 2007, Buildings Entered will constitute my sole artistic endeavor.

Charles LaBelle | Buildings Entered 1997- ongoing