I've had these envelopes of artwork leaning against walls taking up space for a while now, and I keep saying I need to send them back to the artists. Perhaps they don't want it back - after all, it would just be cluttering up their living space then. Anyway, I thought I should actually do it, as it was threatening to turn into an Issue.

When it came down to it, it turned out that the bulk of the envelopes contained marked up photocopies and printouts with some printed proofs, so I was able to distill the returnable pile down to a fraction of the original stack.

Difficult to do, though. If I have problems recognising the garbageness of ... well ... actual garbage, these printouts (that had genuine value and conveyed real meaning several years ago when I did the work) were difficult to redefine as rubbish. Besides, some of them were very pretty. I could hear a voice in my head warming up to provide a defence of them, so I thought it best to rush them to the recycling before I changed my mind. I still sorted through them three times to make sure there wasn't any real artwork in there.

I kept them for up to seven years, and they've not been called for in that time, so I think it's fair to say they'll not be needed again.