Monthly Statement:
March 2006

OBJECT # 27
DATE SENT: March 31, 2006
SENT TO: John Kangha
SENT VIA: Hand Delivered

DESCRIPTION OF OBJECT: Laptop computer. 1996 Macintosh Apple PowerBook 190 Series. FCC ID: HLZM3047 Serial Number EE6430H94ZP. Assembled in Taiwan.

8 1/2” x 11 1/2” x 2 1/4”. Weight: Approximately 6 pounds. Slate gray grained plastic cover with numerous scratches on top and bottom. Screen size is approximately 10” diagonal. Tracking pad is in-operable. External power cord and adapter supplied (12 feet length). Computer has various software programs loaded, including MicrosoftWord and ClarisWorks. Also included are 33 varied installation disks for loading programs and 2 cardboard and one plastic disk holders for aforementioned disks.

ORIGIN AND APPROXIMATE DATE OF POSSESSION OF OBJECT: Purchased from Tekserve, Macintosh dealer on 163 West 23rd Street, New York, NY 10011 (since moved) in May, 2006 prior to my teaching assignment at John Cabot University in Rome, Italy.

MOST RECENT LOCATION OF OBJECT: On my work desk in my studio at 300 Observer Highway, Hoboken, NJ 07030. Desk is in the southeast corner of my studio.

RELATION OF OBJECT TO RECIPIENT: John is the security guard at the Neumann Leather Building, where my studio is located. He has been employed there for perhaps five years and over that time I have been fortunate to become friends with him. He is an immigrant from Africa, who works incredibly hard to support himself and his family. His wife Alice, and son Richmond have recently joined him in New Jersey after a great deal of effort on John’s part to bring them here. John has been kind enough over the years to repair some mechanical and electronic goods of mine. His skills are quite substantial, far greater than many repair services I have dealt with. This PowerBook has been used almost exclusively as a glorified typewriter, and I have not taken advantage of any of its other capabilities. I used it for schoolwork, my short stories, and various art related letters and documents. It has traveled to Europe twice, to Florida many times and has served me well, despite the limited range of my usage. In the last two years the tracking pad has become inoperable, the power cord has a short in it, and it has stopped printing. (see d-acum #28 printer). All my work is now done on an Apple Power Book G4, which I take much more advantage of as a video editor, graphics tool, and image processor. This PowerBook is of course quite out of date, slow, and not powerful in any respect. But because of John’s electronic and mechanical skills he will, I am sure, make greater use of this computer than I ever did, if he can coax it to work properly.

RESPONSE OF RECIPIENT:

DATE OF RESPONSE:

Process: My plan is to de-accumulate objects I now own during the course of the exhibition year. I will photograph the selected object then send the object with a letter to a person who has some relationship to the object or whom I think might be interested in the object. The letter will discuss the project and tell the receiver they can keep the object, destroy it, give it away, recycle it or anything else they choose. I will ask them to document it in the place they now have it and send their image and/or written description back to me of what they did with it and where it is. I plan on de-accumulating an average of one object per week. The new images/descriptions will be placed in a plastic folder and exhibited along with a photograph of the object as it was in my possession.