A WAY OF FACING INVISIBLE TIME
Mar 03, 2020
4 minutes
written by Lee Sungje
‘In my approach, which is a life-long programme, progression registers the process of work, documents and defines time’. In 1972, the Polish artist Roman Opalka wrote an article on his project of life. In that statement, there is a rule for his work: ‘I count progressively from 1 to infinity on details of the same size (with the exception of ‘travel sheets’), by hand, using a brush and white paint on a grey background, assuming that the backdrop of each following detail will be 1% fainter than that of the preceding one’. He drew the numbers on the canvas in the smallest but readable size possible, according to this rule. At the same time, he read aloud and recorded the numbers. After the
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