how was your trip to NY? What did you see? After the outing there was
counting but you can think in other ways as well. Brute as the painter
no think as the thinking painters thought. When is it ever worth it to
not think as much as we can. You can think a lot so come out here and
think! Or think there and send me pictures but keep making work and
telling me about it. Next year Sometimes sitting at my desk I want to
put on my seatbelt. I think I am being too quiet at work, people are
asking me if I'm OK. OK, yes, but loud, not enough.. I've never
considered myself a quiet person. Not really shy. So why am I precieved
as unsocial? I should decorate, co-workers like a decorated cubical.
You, three cubicals over, have many de've re-read your message now a
third time and really appreciate you writing to me. Yale sounds
exciting. How was your visit with John? And then how was Boston?

I think they are really important for shaping ideas around an approach
to sculpture that could in some way help define an interesting way to
approach new media technology as a new genre for fine art. Digital media
wears down differently, the material operates in a different way. Like
time based media (think music!) digital media has a way of floating
through it's own prescence, in that its not a physical object.
Compositional systems for time based media can operate in different ways
as well. are such good painters. After the painting there still will be
painting but hopefully the painting will be about thought. 1912-13 was a
year of good painting but even that thinking was a year too late. The
thinking I'm thinking is more like those phrases you hum down the hall
after seeing a film. No, the thinking I'm thinking is like the set-up
music that is played just for tension before Tosca's big fall. The
thinking I'm thinking is all about painting but not about seeing a
landscape or log. Who can account for the way that but you can think in
other ways as well. Brute as the painter no think as the thinking
painters thought. When is it ever worth it to not think as much as we
can. You can think alot so come out here and think! Or think there and
send me pictures but keep making work and telling me about it.

Next year we think who can account for the thoughts that we have. I am
not interested in thinking about thinking just thinking about making a
new set of thoughts. Why are the paintings that we remember so striking
it is not just the image but the thinking we do. You know this, it has
been at the heart of your painting since before I met you.

Sitting here, working quietly (computer on!) with no required voice
commands or gesteral ummmmph needed to do what I'm trying to do,
reticence creeps in, and I feel very quiet. If this were a drive, I
would be a passenger, or if I must be a driver, I would have just
dropped off my loved one with nothing but the long drive of most of the
day alone. I must get used to working life. Either that or improve right
away, and become an artist.

These compositional methods in time based media are well crafted and
emerge out of a sense of material that reveals a vision of methodical
manipulation of the material to make active in the minds of the viewer a
process of construction, evaluation, and emotional reaction. I think new
media works will get better soon, move past just video, and become an
interesting time based media for serious compositon. Not just yet, but
soon.