Monthly Statement:
December 2005

OBJECT # 13
DATE SENT: December 31, 2005
SENT TO: Celine Altamura
SENT VIA: US Postal Service
DESCRIPTION OF OBJECT: Plastic 35mm “Memory Maker” camera, 5x3x1 1/2”, with box it came in, item #99110004. Camera has built in lens cover, hot shoe for flash attachment, and neck strap. Camera has never been used and was made in China. Box is slightly worn out and has yellow, blue and purple horizontal bars with price tag ($5.95) on top.
ORIGIN AND APPROXIMATE DATE OF POSSESSION OF OBJECT: Purchased approximately in winter of 1997 from Conran’s, a house wares store in lower Manhattan. The store was closing and there was a sale on much of its furniture. I purchased three of these cameras – the others are gone, perhaps given as gifts over the years.
MOST RECENT LOCATION OF OBJECT: In lower left hand drawer of file cabinet that holds desk top in my studio. Desk is in southeast corner of studio and is my main desk.
RELATION OF OBJECT TO RECIPIENT: My niece Celine has been interested in photography over the years and has had a few cameras during that time. I may have even given her one of these same cameras a few years ago, but I don’t recall for sure. She has quite a lot of artistic influence from her mother Lori who has a talent for most things related to art and design. Celine also has a fair amount of influence in relation to athletics from her father, my brother Anthony, who coaches her as a basketball player. Celine also plays volleyball and is a very active girl. I have never talked to her about any interest in art or my activities as an artist specifically, though she has been to my studio a few times and I believe she knows that I am involved with art on a regular basis. I was given a camera one Christmas when I was about her age, though I never believed it had any influence of my career path. While I do not specifically want to influence her to pursue art, I hope only she will enjoy the camera for as long as it lasts.
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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.