I’d like to try to incite the public to destroy a work of art — art into effigy and then into monument. A monument stands in place of something that no longer exists except in spirit and mine will commemorate the vanquished art. If I can’t compel people’s hatred for the work then I want to at least test their attitude toward its destruction. Art is often considered sacred and inviolable and I think people will be extremely tentative about participating in its destruction. But how will they respond? Their response will help compose the monument. A monument to art, or its destruction, a preemptive monument. The destroyed version next to the pristine version which will be subjected to the impulses of the public. Art as a monument which predicts its own destruction and simultaneously commemorates it in advance of its destruction.