The Artshare project allows the viewer to purchase the Prints (Shares) during the initial public offering and then return them if desired in 2004 for double the price paid.

This project addresses the relationship of value and commodity to art, and also satisfies my desire to use art to administrate and create micro-bureaucracies.

The piece can be viewed solely as a financial vehicle or Shares may be framed and displayed with no intention of being returned. A conceptual completion will take place when (or if) Shares are returned in 2004. I also hope that Shares will trade among investors after the initial distribution.

This project is designed to be more accessible and nonexclusive than traditional gallery based work, which is one of the reasons Artshare is distributed via the internet. I see this piece as an underlying support for the work I will continue to create.

For complete discription of the project, please read the back of the Share.