Retyping Conn. suburban angst

Tim Youd at work retyping for the show “Aldrich Decennial: I am what is around me,’’ which opens June 7 at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Conn.

The museum says:

This is part of Mr. Youd’s long-running “100 Novels Project,’’ in which the artist retypes an entire chosen book onto a single sheet of paper, reinforced with another sheet, layering every word until the page becomes an abstract, ink-saturated record of the entire novel.

At The Aldrich, Youd will enact a live, durational retyping of Richard Yates’s famed 1961 debut novel Revolutionary Road, about suburban angst in a Connecticut suburb, on the same model typewriter that Yates used. This is part of the museum’s recurring 10-year series spotlighting Nutmeg State- based artists. This year’s program runs from June 7, 2026 to Jan. 10, 2027. Youd’s project draws on the state’s rich literary history and Yates’s own ties to Connecticut.

Roving the museum’s campus, Youd will work daily in public view from June 7 through June 27, inviting visitors to interact with him. The project will culminate with a framed diptych, a relic of the process.

(And there’s John Cheever….)