Monthly Statement:
September 2005

OBJECT # 2
DATE SENT:
SENT TO: Julia Ochs
SENT VIA: U.S. Postal Service
DESCRIPTION OF OBJECT: One (1) small rock from Walter DiMaria's installation "The Earth Room" sponsored by The Dia Foundation, located at Wooster Street, New York, NY.

ORIGIN AND DATE (APPROXIMATE) OF POSSESSION OF OBJECT: Rock picked up from the edge of the installation and placed in pocket in April, 2005.

MOST RECENT LOCATION OF OBJECT: On top of large wooden desk, and leaning against east wall of my studio at 300 Observer Highway, Hoboken.

NJ.RELATION OF OBJECT TO RECIPIENT: Julia was with me and the rest of our photography class last spring when I placed the rock in my pocket. She has a particular fondness for the land and was very moved by DiMaria's installation. Her family has lived on the same land for over a century and it has been slowly encroached upon by development.

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.