Project Description
One Year is a project through which it is intended to construct a daily photographic record of a single view: the view from the artist’s study window at around 8.00a.m. each day when he sits down to work. One Year will annotate each picture with a note of the weather for that morning and the morning’s main news headline from the BBC News site. In addition, there will be a note taking a key sentence or two from the artist’s daily journal.
For full details and artist’s statement go to Week 1 here
September 27th 2013
- Sunny intervals
- UN discusses Syria draft after deal
- It was nice to get out and do a bit of improvised wandering – to see how places that one is vaguely familiar with actually connect up when one’s on the ground
September 28th 2013
- Light cloud
- UN adopts Syria chemical resolution
- Have I found my voice? What is my voice? What does it sound like? And all those other voices, those that I believed to be mine, to whom did they belong?
September 29th 2013
- Sunny intervals
- Mortgage help scheme brought forward
- A map of the town showing the pattern of streets and buildings. Subjacent to that is a map of the underlying tunnels, sewers and passageways. The other town. The secret town.
September 30th 2013
- Thick cloud
- Osborne in ‘work for benefits’ plan
- About the effect of word, line and space. Of punctuation and placement.
October 1st 2013
- Thick cloud
- US begins shutdown amid budget row
- The combined text is looking pretty good now, looking forward to seeing Charlie’s proposals for the lay-out
October 2nd 2013
- Thick cloud
- PM promising ‘land of opportunity’
- . . . a London of smoke, smog and post-war austerity
October 3rd 2013
- Light rain shower
- Obama warns of US default danger
- But does stream of consciousness writing really mean one writes without thinking, or is it simply thinking in a different way? As if telling the internal editor to take a back-seat, for now.
Great project, Mr Seal.
Thank you, Billy. It’s an interesting voyage of discovery for me – I know the project will last 52 weeks but, other than that, I’ve no idea where we’ll end up.
Bobby,
Responding to Oct 3rd – ‘Creatives’ need to noodle around with stuff until it settles.
Saw a documentary recently on Sky about Antony Gormley and although his work involves lots of cast steel he draws and draws and draws.
It reassured me that all of the time spent caught up in ideas and streams of thought is worth it in the end.
Hi Dave. I highly recommend a daily ‘stream of consciousness’ journal as a morning warm-up for anyone involved in any kind of creative writing. For me, it seems to act as a creative stimulus and has a quality of ‘mindfulness’ about it.
That’s what makes it so interesting.
It is a true drift/derive.
The interaction between your thought and written feelings, seasonality and the vagaries of the 24 hour news cycle will create some tensions and contradictions to explore. The contrast between the fixed elements and the variables will be fascinating to see as it ‘condenses’ over time.