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I asked Wade to participate in the second HDTS after showing his work in a three-person exhibition at my gallery in New York alongside Mungo Thomson and Matthew Brannon. In the show, Wade contributed a beat up and twisted Breuer chair frame sculpture and a series of appropriated installation shots of public works by icons of modernism such as Tony Smith with gigantic X’s over them.

I think everybody was a little perplexed by these gestures at the time. Little did we know how important the “X” iconography would subsequently become in his work. When Wade told me of his plan to place a big black X on Andy’s property I was skeptical but went along with it happily. In retrospect, it’s one of my favorite artist contributions. I remember helping Wade paint the simple wood planks in the hot desert sun, screwing them together and simply propping them up on the parcel.