Monthly Statement:
February 2006
When I was in high school I remember rummaging around in my parent's basement for old electronics to take apart and repurpose. I found an old answering machine that used a standard size cassette tape. Curious, I put the tape in my tape deck and pushed play. The first message to play was a message from our neighbor who had died five years earlier. He was a good friend of our family. The message was sad and erie. He was simply calling my father back in regards to fixing a truck, borrowing the roto-tiller, or some other mundane farm activity. I had not heard his voice in five years, but I recognized it instantly.

It was this memory that initially prompted this project. I decided I wanted to potentially recreate that experience for myself years in the future: To hear the voices of friends that have come and gone, the message left by my bank telling me about some terrible mix up, to hear my dad sing me happy birthday.

Process: My accumulates (voicemail messages) will come to me. The nature of my project is that my actions play a very minor role, instead I allow a normal part of my life to constantly accumulate and I catalog it.