Monthly Statement:
September 2005

OBJECT # 1
DATE SENT: September 30, 2005
SENT TO: Eddie Zampino
SENT VIA: U.S. Postal Service
DESCRIPTION OF OBJECT: Yellow and blue marching band hat with silver metal emblem containing cross on front.

ORIGIN AND APPROXIMATE DATE OF POSSESSION OF OBJECT: Two hats found in the basement floor of St. Joseph’s Boys High School, West New York, N.J., among a box of abandoned band equipment. The approximate date was fall of 1971.

MOST RECENT LOCATION OF OBJECT: On top shelf above desk at south east corner wall of my studio.

RELATION OF OBJECT TO RECIPIENT: Eddie Zampino and I found the hats as we were roaming through the basement of our high school. We decided we could use the hats in more interesting ways than they were currently being used. The band had not been in existence for many years. The hats were worn by us only on very special occasions.

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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.