Paul Sharits (1943-1993)

As have been the case with my past several films, “Declarative Mode!” could have joint premiers in [the] “American Filmmakers” Series at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and at the Walker Art Gallery in Minneapolis. It would become [one of] the new works to be shown in the forthcoming six-week complete retrospective of my work at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo in October 1976.

6.12.76

*this sentence still holds but there are revisions: only the anti-slavery statement declared so adamantly by Jefferson but denied public existence by Congress, shall be enunciated in this homage to not only Jefferson, the black Americans, all the “minorities”—but also, and foremost, to progressive/open cognitive-ethical-esthetic systems, general systems, highly generated systems, infinity systems, systems’ systems system. By focusing on the omitted element of T.D.O.I., a more declarative experience can be brought to the public than was provided for in my first concept. All factors, however, in terms of structuring, will hold—with a formal revision concerning aspect ratio: Switched from 3:4 to 3:8 (anamorphic lens)—emphases on width, in time and (shall we call it) space.