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In the introduction, Robert Buckeye writes, "Gallo works in the mental health system and sees the hospital, not just as a metaphor, but as an absolute reality that governs our lives...If we note that Gallo's work incorporates text, we must also understand that in his art text is a context that in itself alters picture, or what a picture might be. The words that we read or cannot read are also brushstrokes. Gallo may white out, cross out, write over, but he does so, not so much to edit as to return to beginnings." The title "daytrtment" signifies day treatment in a mental health institution. This book is an example of "dirty typewring."Daytrtmnt combines writing and drawing and recounts his day to day experiences as a social worker in rural Vermont and has been compared to the works of Guyotat and Artaud. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.