ESSAY text and artwork by HARRY DODGE, copyright and courtesy of the artist harry dodge is a california artist and the author of my meteorite: or, without the random there can be no new thing, published by penguin books, 2020. I’m an artist. I accumulate objects, ideas: messy collections, items in oblique relation, grisly correlates, fickle concerts, false analogies. Color might draw items together or patterns just misregistered enough to set off something new (blocky conceptual moiré). I actually happen to have a folder called Islands (the word written on the front with a soft graphite that is now smudged and which I try not to touch). The following is an (appended) accounting of its contents. When Lenny was two, I obtained a handsome picture book called The Little Island, which we read every day for months. First, the author describes all aspects of the isle: windswept, rocky, a spindly…