I mean no disrespect. I do enjoy my visits to museums they provide us with access to a wealth of information and contact with many new ideas. I have enjoyed my association with museum and gallery personal even though we have butted heads.

I have frequently been asked to contribute to slide banks and in the past have only done so a couple of times. My sense is that the slides banks don't reflect my work adequately enough because I can't afford to document enough of the work on slides. (I remember seeing a small portion of Alexander Lieberman's slide & photo documentation. He had 5 x 7 & 8 x 10 color transparencies & seperations in this file!) Particularly when I don't see an economic return for me on an activety that is not directly connected with making what I consider my art. Museums could easily set up periodic reviews where work could be documented with high quality and low cost. Still video cameras of high quality can be had for less than 10-15,000 dollars & the computer technology to put the work on line is much less than that. A single exhibit can cost many times more than the hardware to begin documenting the work.

This project will potentially be another slide bank but I think that given the technology it can be much more. If there is a museum in the Washington Area that would turn its slidebank into a site for and about art documentation I would donate whatever (meager) materials I have on this site to that institution and go on to another project I have in mind

My goal would be Visual Footnoting of all exhibitions. A step in the direction of acknowledging the artistic dialogue that exists today. Actually this could be a very lively step. Perhaps more lively than the exchanges by artists in the cafes of Montmartre at the turn of the 20th century.

None of us knows what will develope in the future of art but we look. Each of us looking and some of us creating what will be the record of our civilization.