Monthly Statement:
December 2005

OBJECT # 15
DATE SENT: December 31, 2005
SENT TO: June, Jessica and Chloe Stoddard- Chappe
SENT VIA: US Postal Service
DESCRIPTION OF OBJECT: Blue velour long sleeve shirt, Small, with holes and worn spots in various locations.

ORIGIN AND APPROXIMATE DATE OF POSSESSION OF OBJECT: Given to me by David Chappe in the fall of 1979 as he was leaving Rochester, NY to move to Los Angeles, California.

MOST RECENT LOCATION OF OBJECT: On the bottom shelf of a green metal shelving unit in the northeast corner of my studio, directly to the right of the studio’s exit door.

RELATION OF OBJECT TO RECIPIENT: June’s husband David, died three years ago after a long battle with cancer. David was a visual artist and writer who was one of my best friends during my graduate school years in Rochester. We shared a love of literature, writing, food, softball, music, movies, women, and of course art. David was a big brother to me at that time and a great friend beside. My memories of him are long and sweet, and often centered around activities. Driving to the quarry, going to movies at RIT, eating great dinners at his and DH’s apartment, joking, laughing, and long, long fly balls to center field that still haven’t come down. He gave me this shirt and various other items of clothing over the years, many of which I still have. For a while I used this shirt in the darkroom as a work shirt, though I would wear it on occasion as well if I was going out from my studio and it had turned cold. June Stoddard and David married and for the first time in the years I knew him, he was truly happy with his domestic life. After some time David and June had two beautiful girls, Jessica and Chloe, who were the pure joy of David’s life. I initially thought to give this shirt to them alone, but was not sure how it might be shared. I think that the three of them will use it in a way that is unique and special, which it, and David, have always been to me.

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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.