I'm having an idea to write a letter, not of a diaristic form to myself but addressed to particular people, as an exercise in notation formats, to get the ideas out of my head and onto the table - to process ideas into a material instantiation that I can continue to work with. The letters will also of course function as letters, being written and sent off in the hopes of receiving a response, an ongoing conversation, continuous contact. The letters can be printed, stamped, typewritten, screen printed, enlarged. They could also contain idiosyncratic details: hand drawn signatures, stamped dates and locations, "from the desk of TJW," various colors of ink, and other evocations of the history of mail/correspondence art. The letters will be written to everyone I know, strategically, based on the concerns for the day as they are constantly in motion so that every new day will generate a new letter for a particular individual who may be able to engage with the current content.

The letters will trace a symbolic arch of importance and meaning through my position in contemporary art, but also greater and lesser curvatures, with conversations tracing through my own historical trajectories.

Retrieve SAIC notebooks, readings, and other primary source materials from NM.

David Raskin, art historian concerned with the legacy of Donald Judd, observed my graduate artwork during a critique, noting that it amounted "to a lot of nothing," pejoratively - to be sure. At first this was offensive but now it takes on a new relevance. Perhaps he was correct, even acute in recognizing my own motivations and being able to articulate them more frankly than I could let on - minus the profundity I infused them with.

This SAIC work should be revisited, written about, reimagined, reincorporated, re-mythologized. The compost pile will sprout new subtle bodies.

There are many other recipients both living and dead whom I would like to direct letters, not for sake of pure fantasy but to direct pertinent questions to primary sources concerning my multifarious inspirations in art, music, etc., to serve as sounding boards for my ongoing vocal echo location tactics.

"Famous" or established or successful or validated artists and theorists vs. peers, colleagues, friends, close to my age/generation. There would be a difference in tone, character, formalism, language usage, conceptual formulations, and other factors going into the composition of these letters. The more casual letters would be a continuation of a dialogue already undergoing - perhaps with large gaps - concerning the ramifications of their work, and my own, in the grand scheme of things, towards a support structure of mutual exchange.

Charting the trajectories of dialogue from within grad school compared to those occurring outside, variance of personal connection, etc. How do the relational force-dynamics oscillate? Where are the threats located, when am I the threat?