For this month's documentation, please see the photos from December's exhibition.

Monthly Statement:
December 2005
I'm not putting up all the November and December items as the exhibition approaches. I will wait and add them as I re-install.

Today I took the installation down in my studio and moved it to the gallery for the initial exhibition. This was an interesting process. It is a fairly big job. I'd guess I have 300-500 objects now. To make the process a little easier I divided the objects into six groups so I'd know roughly where they would be placed in the new location, rather than starting from scratch with the need to map them out on the color/tone grid.

Although I felt something like despair at first, when placing the first few objects, I noticed that this passed pretty quickly and a similar pleasure to the pleasure of collecting the objects took its place. This took over and carried me along.

I didn't try to reproduce the arrangement I had set up in the studio. This I don't think would ever be important to the point these pieces are making. I feel that the arrangement of the items is very important, but not in the sense that one arrangement is the only one possible-

These notions were re- affirmed:

-I would eliminate objects that did not seem to me to be helping.

-The subjective side of the process is important- I arrange the objects to the best of my ability (and without any attempt to do so scientifically) according to the color/tone grid, but also according to my sense of what is working to facilitate the point I want to make.

-Generally the objects are placed so they are not touching or overlapping.

-There are no hard and fast rules except that the objects are each in some way yellow (according to my judgment)

-The size range of objects should be considered narrow.

This question interests me:

Could I create a set of instructions for someone else to follow that would either infallibly or even most or some of the time result in a work that makes the point just as well as my collection?
It might be interesting to try to state the point in one sentence or a few sentences each month without necessarily reading back, and see what the collection of statements looks like at the end.

I will try today:

Leonardo Da Vinci advises painters who need ideas for compositions to look at crumbling plaster walls- in decaying matter, stuff that was identifiable as this or that specific item and has later become adulterated or fragmented or obscured or broken, ripped, rubbed, abraded, stained, soiled, etc., there is all the abstracted, the raw, factual material any bit of which hermeneutically serves as a seed for the context of a current narrative, as a contextualizer.

Process: I will collect yellow things which will be mostly litter and other refuse of our urban environment, on walks. I will collect them as I go about the normal business of my life.