Triumphant Wednesday greetings collectors! Oh what a night last night was, wouldn't you say? Really incredible. People were whooping and hollering in the streets into the wee hours and my various online haunts were percolating with excitement and relief.

All the electricity in the air seems well expressed by Brooklyn-based artist Marcie Paper's exuberant edition Untitled 76. It's not just its energy and the ways in which it's an excellent, albeit slightly off-kilter, pairing with yesterday's Super Rally photograph by MDM. It's also because Marcie's work is informed and inspired by the present moment, memory and personal experience. The contemplation of memory — its influence on us, and ours on it — seems a worthy endeavor during this most memorable and momentous of times. Marcie writes:

How much of our long-term memory is a sum of small insignificant events? Is this whole greater then the sum of its parts? How do short and long term memory influence each other...When do our daily experiences transform into our recollections of the past? And ultimately, what is the impact of memory on our concept of our selves and our placement within the world?

My own memory of last night is proving to be shaped by the mundane. Exhausted from my travels, which only allowed me a few fitful hours of sleep before heading into a hectic day at the studio, I was useless by the day's end. I headed home and ensconced myself on the couch, with Ollie at my feet and my laptop on my lap. An evening of home alone channel-surfing might seem an ignoble commemoration of the night's historic events, but in reality I wasn't alone at all. It was an experience shared virtually, via Facebook, Twitter, IM and text messages. A late night chat session with a West Coast pal, a fellow dog lover, went like this:

Jen Bekman: PRESIDENT OBAMA
Not THAT Sarah: YESSSSSS!!!!!!
JB: Yes.
NTS: i was just clicking over to read your post :)
JB :D
NTS: i like the photo more now :)
JB: I'm so happy.
JB: Hah
NTS: i was too nervous to love it this afternoon!
JB: HAH.That's funny. We were cocky to choose it, but there you go.
NTS: i was glad you did
NTS which coast are you on?
JB: I am back in NY already
NTS: are people in your hood loud and happy?
JB: yes they are
NTS: nice
JB: Cheering in the streets and horns honking etc
JB: It's super
NTS: so SO great. i'm all weepy
JB: I am excited, it's really amazing, but it hasn't really hit me yet.
NTS: i don't know why, but it's nice to like the first family
JB: totally
NTS: btw, michelle and barack told the girls they'd get a dog after the election
NTS: whichever way it goes
JB: :D
NTS: so we'll have a first puppy :)

Barack and Michelle: I'll send you the 20x200 print of your choice, just so long as you promise me that the nation's First Puppy comes from your local SPCA. I suggest you do your window-shopping on Petfinder, but forewarned is forearmed — it's bound to make you teary.