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1974–2027
PERSONAL ARCHIVE · 1,087 WORKS

Archive butterfly mark Retrospective in Absentia · 53 Years of Solitude & Ballistics

A 53-Year Topography of Solitude, Warplanes, and Unfinished Works.

The Digital Personal Archive of Jeffrey F. S. Neumann. Built for his grandchildren, historians, and accidental wanderers.

A Note From the Archive’s Maker Archive butterfly mark
“I am not trying to build an artist website. I am trying to build the best possible digital experience for encountering a lifetime of work.”
Archive butterfly mark JEFF NEUMANN, 71.
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Artist Statement: Who I Am STOPPED
The only recorded statement in the archive · recorded 2026-06-16
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Transcript

“Hi, this is Jeff Neumann. I’m an artist, 71 years old. I started going to art school in 1974 at CIA. I went there five years, became a designer, and now here I am. That’s all for now. Thanks.”

Auto-transcribed, verified against the recording by Jeff on 2026-09-15.

Archive butterfly mark Master Vitrine 01

Observation on the Myth of Continuous Creation

Plate 1 of 1,087 — the earliest work in the catalogue, alongside four more spanning the full 53 years.

PLATE 0001 • FRONTISPIECE // CR-2026-0001
DIMENSIONS: NOT RECORDED GALLERY 01 / EAST WALL
Plate 1: Untitled (Figure, Red Ground). Vertical mixed-media collage on red ground incorporating compact discs, numerals, and ephemera.
RECORD
Artist: Jeffrey F. S. Neumann [American, b. 1955]
Title: Untitled (Figure, Red Ground)
Medium: Mixed-media collage on cardboard and paper
Description:

Vertical mixed-media collage on red ground incorporating compact discs at each corner, a floppy disk at bottom center, drawn numerals along the margins, and a central layered column of printed ephemera.

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warning Uncertainty Ledger § Absence Registry

The Architecture of Loss

A museum that respects an artist’s reality cannot pretend that everything survived. We catalog the unrecoverable with equal rigor. Preserving uncertainty without fiction.

500–1,000 WORKS MISSING Archive butterfly mark
“A friend called. I went to see if I could save anything. I was told to stay away — bed bugs. So I stood on the sidewalk, about six feet back, and watched.” Read the Register of Loss →
1,087
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Catalogued

Individually recorded and photographed.
159
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Composites

Imagined placements, disclosed as such.
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Real Exhibitions

In 53 years of largely solitary practice.
500–1,000
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Works That Did Not Survive

A range, not a count — nothing here was ever inventoried.
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The Register of Loss
No inventory. No photographs. No titles.
One record, not a thousand empty ones.
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Verified Cross-Motif Statistic

297 works place a warplane and a target in the same frame · 1990–2020

A recurring pairing across three decades, counted directly from the catalogue’s own motif tags — not asserted, checkable.

[Explore Warplane + Target Co-Occurrence in Motif Ledger →]
Jeff made a full-scale interpretation of Picasso’s Guernica (approximately 11 × 25 feet) in his home studio basement. Never shown, never photographed, lost in the water damage.
After thirty-plus years using Guernica as a working reference: “It was about time.”
Archive butterfly mark REGISTER OF LOSS · 500–1,000
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Temporal Cadence // Decade Spectrogram

53 Years: Acceleration and The Silent Decade

Only 3 works in the archive carry an exact date; the rest are decade estimates. This chart shows the resolution the data actually supports — six decades, not a fabricated year-by-year curve.

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SELECT OR HOVER A DECADE Six decades, all real counts from config/catalog.json.
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* The 1980s: fewest surviving works of any decade
Only 12 works survive from the entire decade. No specific cause is documented for the gap; this is stated as an observation, not a diagnosed reason.
Archive butterfly mark Recursive Inquiries

Obsessions & Thematic Spirals

Three real, checkable threads running through 33 observable motifs across five decades.

PORTAL // 01 232 WORKS

The Guernica Series

Thirty years using Picasso’s Guernica as a structure to work against — his own words for it.

SPAN: 1990s–2020s
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PORTAL // 02 297 WORKS

Targets & Warplanes

Warplane silhouettes and target rings recur together across three decades — a real, counted pairing, not an assertion.

SPAN: 1990–2020
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PORTAL // 03 500–1,000

The Register of Loss

The open, unembellished record of works lost to water damage and time — no inventory, no photographs, no invented details.

ABSENCE REGISTRY § 500–1,000
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Archive butterfly mark Non-Linear Wanderer

The Juxtaposition Engine

Two real works, decades apart, shown side by side.

ART00011970s (est.)
Untitled (Figure, Red Ground)

Untitled (Figure, Red Ground)

1970s

Vertical mixed-media collage on red ground incorporating compact discs at each corner and drawn numerals along the margins.

ART01512020s (est.)
Untitled (Studio Installation View) 1

Untitled (Studio Installation View) 1

2020s

Fifty years later, the same studio practice continues.