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
October 4th 2013
- Sunny intervals
- Search resumes for Italy boat dead
- For me, the best genre fiction is that where the writer consciously subverts the form of that genre; where he or she breaks the rules
October 5th 2013
- Sunny intervals
- Union anger at health pay plan
- The simple act of walking and its effect on the heart, the soul and the imagination
October 6th 2013
- Sunny
- US commandos hit Islamists in Africa
- And who’s to say my inner life then wasn’t real? Isn’t real still? Aren’t my memories of my dreams as much part of me as my memories of my actions?
October 7th 2013
- Sunny intervals
- ‘Flying’ care visits ‘disgraceful’
- Modernism let the genie out of the bottle – never again can we carry on as if we’re unaware of the significance of the form the writer chooses
October 8th 2013
- Sunny intervals
- Press plan for regulation ‘rejected’
- A dark sky: blue-black ink washed over with black
October 9th 2013
- Sunny intervals
- Failings found in border safeguards
- Looking at Flint through the lens of Shakespeare today
October 10th 2013
- Sunny
- Libyan PM Zeidan seized by armed men
- My aim with this poem is to harness some of that anger without lapsing into hatred
I love this. Great idea. Oddly moving to see the sky change / not change, to see the juxtaposition of your thoughts with the news headline.
Thanks, Liz. It’s odd but, I have to agree, the sky seems to be to be taking centre stage. I love your new gravatar image, by the way – very expressionist!
Great blog. With the scrolling action of the digital screen, it works like a very slow film, which feels quite powerful in the age of fast. Like a French academic who used technology to do something slow with poetry and music. If it’s still up then it’s here:
http://christinejeanney.net/deplacements/vases-communicants/article/philippe-aigrain-dans-menuet-sur
Thanks Bobby and Liz.
Thanks for your comments and the link, Cathy. I’m following your excellent project too. It’s interesting the way we humans repeatedly try to interpret the world by applying our temporal constructs to it.
Thanks Bobby. I got into a complete muddle on it recently. Time, space, perspective, metaphor, reality, all crashed into each other in my neural pathways.
But it seems to have something that I can’t leave alone.