APSsible solution-Update
06/26/2000 1:06 AM
From: Michael Silver <mikesilver@mindless. com>
Subject: A possible solution- Update
To: "dkao@fas.harvard edu" <dkao@fas.harverd.edu>
Sunday June 25 2000
Dear Debi
I'm exhasted now as this was Brigitta's last weekend here and the issue
of ownership continued to haunt me. I think you know me wellnough to
know thatI am sincere and am not trying to create an issue where there
is none or to take onnecessarily of your time.
My nain concern was for the integrity of my art. Of course I want to
eell a plece to the Fogg as I need the support and of course I would
1ike this piece in the collect ion or else I would not have brought it.
consider It & very important piece in the development of my art.
resistance s that the piece has a life outside of me and I'm obligated
to tol lowits course St was created from a Rauschenberg and a Johns two
Involved in Cagels "First Meeting of the Satie Society". As you
Joved the art of John Cage and Cage in turn respected me. He
ood these issues off ownership and he understood that that concept
as part f our problem and that it may not be a relevant or useful
in a fubo ce world. My piece in the Satie was to illustrate the
OL Genosi and to create art from art. As you know I also cooked
the edible drawing. This is not unfamiliar territory.
Ha imy previouaemails I said that I relinquish claims of ownership and
Plage in your hands. Its important that I do that. I will send you
those siqued omails so that you might feel free to do with the piece
what ydb want. Hopefully you will have the ability as a curator to
2esponeLbly determine what should be done with this now orphaned piece.
2vould be nice if someone could claim it on behalf of that future
752adent/scholar" because that's to whom it truly belongs. My lawyer
14ex Kovel Yale, Harvard, Oxford) could help if the legality is somehow
Ae to purchasing a piece I will have one that I will own though have not
yet produced. I decided that I will take Brigitta's portrait this week.
Untilnow I wanted to be very careful not to use her for my art. I must
move from here the 7th and I give up my large now borrowed camera and my
Borrokedtudio then. In the future I plan to work with roll film, work
at the Museun School, and start anew. Brigitta has been very very
Important e. As important as Paul Strand's Rebecca. I feel my best
werk is ead of me and the relevance of her portrait to my work is that
SE I produce significant work in the future she in no small part made
St possibl
Let me know hat you think I would love to reach a conclusion and
embrace my oture.
sincerely and thank you
Michael
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