Time can be a killjoy. When it is running out on you, you would do anything for a bit more of it. When there is too much of it at hand, it is the bane of your life. Thanks to the last few years such skewed views of time are universal, no longer the domain of the ill and the incarcerated. Taranaki-based Chauncey Flay's experience of time is skewed further by his stone sculpture practice, in which he defines form by removing grains of sand, slowly. Rather than submitting to time's tricks, he meets them head on, inventing a project that might defeat them: One Million Marks, or OMM for short.
It was a simple plan, summed up in the title: Flay would create a work made up of one million marks, over a period of a year. Each mark would be a simple brushstroke, of about an inch in length, on a piece of stone paper (strong and
