taking pics of time

for one month (well, actually for as long as it took to finish a roll of 27 photographs), i photographed the inside of my locker on the fourth floor in the south building of ecu ( in the painting studio). it is just an attempt at documenting time, it obviously has glitches, sometimes i would change the location, i would vary the time of the day and i would not come in every day. i kind of combined this with writing two pages of text (Times New Roman, point 12, double-spaced), each and every day. i was kind of experimenting around with the concept of time, with producing the same amount of things ( words in the case of the text, clicking a photograph in the case of the lockerphotos). to me, text is nothing but lines on paper, very similar to other visual units, be it 2-dimensional, be it 3- dimensional. these units can then be used to build, produce a bigger entity, they are like mosaicstones, like bricks for a building,( if that makes sense). in this case, in the image above, i collaged 3 images in the scanner. i want to document the process that eventually was distilled into the two final projects, the performance with the chairs in mid-term and the 3 animations that i showed to the class in the room near the copyplace in the north building. i notice that lots of the things i did over the 4-month period were attempts and processes that were not necessarily going anywhere, but i kind of like all these loose ends, because that is the only way that i can go somewhere, i first have to make an attempt to do certain things and then see where it goes, and then, in the end, edit them out or leave them in. thus, my artwork, if one can call it that, is heavy on process, not that heavy on execution, because i somehow seem to stay in the process of "R&D", in the process of developing my concept, in stashing away all these sketches for an exhibition. I must add, that i was kind of influenced by artists, who occupy a space in a gallery and change their exhibit within that space each and every day. obviously i cannot do that in a 30 minute or 15 minute crit, but i can take a stab at it by physically putting all those loose ends in the same space as i did in the midterm project, where i physically put all the stuff i produced over the two first months, together, without any hierarchy, without editing, there were no strong points, no weak points, it kind of flew into each other, amalgamating. i like it like that, i said at that time that my project is about failure, but i think now i could rephrase that in a more positive way, call it a project about potential, about process, about the struggle with an idea, with the articulation of an idea.