John Spargana comes to Columbia on Thursday, October 25, at 4 p.m. at 623 S. Wabash, room 703 as part of the A+D Lecture Series http://www2.colum.edu/undergraduate/artanddesign/11th/. Sparagana is best-known for JOHN SPARAGANA mass-produced magazine pages hand worked into unique objects, their slick fashion images made soft and hazy through wear. The pieces in John Sparagana’s Sleeping Beauty series are rich in reversals and seeming contradictions. Made by crumpling the page with his hands until the paper feels like cloth, the process of their creation is one of destruction. Yet while the extreme fatigue obviously demonstrates break down, the traces of image and withstanding unity of the paper nonetheless evoke persistence, speaking as much to the deeply entrenched impact of advertising as to the physical material of the media that convey its messages.