This essay focuses on the material and visual traces of everyday life, in particular his engagement with photgraphs and postcards as objects of art. Joe Moran, the author, describes Phillips project "20 Sites n Years." He also points out the similarity in the compulsive interest between Phillips and George Perec. Phillips use of postcards as in "The Postcard Century" and in his semial painting "Benches" is noted. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.