Project Description

One Year is a project through which the artist intends to construct a daily photographic record of a single view: the view from his 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

 

November 8^th 2013

 

 

 

 

 

 

• Light cloud
• Monster storm roars in Philippines
• Baby’s body moves through time and space; with the illusion of language, he describes that journey

 

November 9^th 2013

 

 

 

 

 

• Light cloud
• Philippines storm toll ‘tops 100’
• Is there an element of tedium in the One Year process?  Of course there is, tedium is an inescapable fact of the human condition.  Perhaps even a necessary fact; the plain black cloth against which the precious jewel can be displayed.

 

November 10^th 2013

 

 

 

 

 

 

• Sunny
• Fears of 10,000 dead after typhoon
• Make a list of the people you have lost.  Honour them with your tears.

 

November 11^th 2013

 

 

 

 

 

 

• Light rain
• Philippines devastation is ‘bedlam’
• The trouble with typing up a poem is that it makes it feel ‘finished’; it discourages further revision when revision is usually what that poem desperately needs

 

November 12^th 2013

 

 

 

 

 

 

• Sunny
• Race to save typhoon survivors
• …reading BART poem out loud, his voice conveys the gathering momentum of the train.

 

November 13^th 2013

 

 

 

 

 

 

• Sunny
• Storm survivors ‘desperate for aid’
• Weird dream – news that a chicken was infected with a computer virus

 

November 14^th 2013

 

 

 

 

 

 

• Light rain shower
• US carrier to boost typhoon effort
• .. and when the memory holder dies, what happens to the memory?