In earlier drawings and collages, I used to depict stacks of bankers boxes, just crude outlines, suspended in space, and they’d repeat to form a cage or lattice. Sometimes I’d perch some birds on there. The ubiquitous boxes had a curt little set of words in one of the descriptor fields: “destroy date.” A way to keep track of when you are legally allowed to stop storing a certain amount of evidence that you might need to defend yourself against an audit by the state. But also poignant. When is it ok to let this go?