In 1997, I moved to Earth, the Brooklyn studio of an artist, Tehching Hsieh, where he had been working on a 13-year performance art piece"Tehching Hsieh 1986-1999".

Our extended conversation had made me rethink some of my old ideas about art--until finally I decided to alter the nature and course of our conversation by making an artwork that would be my response to his comments and ideas, and that would have as its audience only one person: Hsieh himself.

For my part of this "dialogue," I made drawings, wrote diary entries, and constructed layers of wooden frame covered with plastic stretch wrap. I did this everyday, building a total of 23 layers in Hsieh's studio even as I lived and slept there. When there was no more room in the place for further construction, I began to dismantle my work from the inside out.

The project was completed in 36 days.