Excerpt from a letter written to a friend the day after Zhang Huan Opening: 

".....I came extremely close to doing something very foolish at the Zhan Huan opening at Pacewildenstein last night.

The installation was a giant concrete slab, 7ft in height and aprx. 50ft x 30ft. To view the piece, there were stairs that were set up over the structure so that the crowd could look down onto the top surface of the slab, it was a conveyor line of people, there was a wait and they checked all bags... very hyped up.

On the surface 50ftx 30ft, was a drawing done with ashes of a field of people ( Chinese). This work was executed by using many artists and was taken from a photograph... There was an artist working on scaffolding while the show was going on.

I came so close to jumping up onto the piece and running to the center, laying down and making an angel in the ash! Think about it... Asian/ Anglo interactive. The eastern field of people dwarfed by a western angel, many artists and many hours / funding altered in 30 seconds by one individual...this is performance art in the raw w/risk!

I scare myself because This was not just a fleeting thought... Andrew, I came so close that in a sense, it happened!
My partner and I discussed Bail ect. all in under a minute ... I hesitated, they shuffled us through and the moment was ripped away.

My thought is that I will have other opportunities when I am established... This way it will not be viewed as a publicity stunt and more importantly... I will have proper bail money and good representation...."

WB - May 2008