Monthly Statement:
October 2005

OBJECT #6
DATE SENT: October 26, 2005
SENT TO: William Ortega
SENT VIA: US Postal Service
DESCRIPTION OF OBJECT: Rectangular plywood box 8 1/2” x 4 1/4” x 4 1/4”. Small wooden blocks (approx 1 1/2 x 1 1/2 x 2) glued into each corner. Stained exterior and interior (partial). No top on the box.

ORIGIN AND APPROXIMATE DATE OF POSSESSION OF OBJECT: Box was built by William Ortega according to my specifications during 1997. Built in my studio at 300 Observer Highway, Suite 5H, Hoboken, NJ 07030.

MOST RECENT LOCATION OF OBJECT: On top of another wooden box, on black table and against east wall of my studio.

RELATION OF OBJECT TO RECIPIENT: William Ortega, my student and also studio assistant during 1997-98, built the box for a project I had in mind. It was a prototype for four boxes that ultimately housed bloodied band-aids, each placed on a different color velvet cloth. He had made a previous box, which wasn’t quite appropriate, and then this particular box was more close to what I had in mind. Will was persistent and very concerned with getting it right. He made something that was perfectly suited for the band-aids. At the time, he was applying to graduate school, which he completed successfully, and is now teaching, making art, and exhibiting. The box has been in my studio over the last eight years, sitting as Will left it, waiting to be used.

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.