Monthly Statement:
September 2005

OBJECT # 4
DATE SENT: September 30, 2005
SENT TO: David Henry
SENT VIA: US Postal Service
DESCRIPTION OF OBJECT: Softball.
ORIGIN AND APPROXIMATE DATE OF POSSESSION OF OBJECT: Most likely acquired by purchase in Rochester, NY, spring or summer 1979.

MOST RECENT LOCATION OF OBJECT: In shoe box with other balls, under wooden desk in north east corner of studio.

RELATION OF OBJECT TO RECIPIENT: In the summer of 1978 and 1979 while I was in the middle of graduate studies and living in Rochester, NY, David Henry, myself, and other friends became softball addicts. We played every night after work until it was dark. David Henry was a sharp infielder and good with the bat. We had become close friends about a year before that, but our relationship was cemented by playing softball together.

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.