Dear Hap,

Many new technological advances in the past year have allowed me to rethink painting and the future of painting. I think that is why I have been reluctant to let you go as an adviser. I need to bring painting in to a century of Liquid Crystal Displays and Light Emiting Diodes or else it will be tossed aside and 40,000 years of it will die. Three things bring me to this email. First the Ipad has displayed a new potential for touch screens that seems incredible and would open up avenues of truer more physical digital painting. Second the Xbox Kinect and its ability to record motion with a controller also allows the potential for mark making and physicality of paint to become digital and shared in space. These new works of art could stand alongside books(kindle) and music(itunes) by being distributed by the outlets that video games use like Xbox live or Valve's Steam. Finally the last piece of the puzzle is Kanye West. His utter control of pop culture right now and his absolute hold on all his work and his ability to communicate to millions is something I am utterly jealous of and why I want to find a new way to paint and bring paint out to the masses. The leaps in technology allow for something that is akin to painting and a video game to appear. A digital experience manifested and infinitely reproducible to appear. Using the language of painting I know I will encounter difficulty with the flatness of painted surface but I would like to coordinate with and have your help in exploring this "brave new world." What I want is not that high tech however or really is quite archaic. I want the physical action of painting to be the same/similar but I want its end result to be digital. I want an Ipad that is several feet long and several feet tall. I want to user in a re-mass consumption of painting. I want to keep the fire that extends to lascaux alive because even now painting is being thrown by the way side because of its physical inaccessibility. I know I should not be so concerned with my audience or obsessed with the numbers but I truly think that my message is important and contemporary that it needs to be seen and felt by everyone.

Homer