These pieces are a series of actions that call upon repetitive processes, limitations of material, and explorations of maintaining an acute awareness of my surroundings.
Action #1: Cut into 3 x 25 inch strips two pieces of 25 x 38 inch Neenah’s Eames Architectural paper; accordion fold into 3/8 inch sections; refold and piece together to create forms resembling honeycombs.
Status: Complete
Date started: 9/12/2009
Date finished: 10/23/2009
Action # 2: Copy all notations by an unknown owner of J.M. Coetzee’s In the Heart of the Country and Foe onto tracing paper using a Micron 02 pen. Books found on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania in West Philadelphia, summer 2009.
Status: In the Heart of the Country complete
Date started: 9/13/2009
Date finished: In the Heart of the Country - 10/10/2009
Action # 3: Stitch in straight lines 500 yards of 100% white cotton no. 40 quilting thread onto 1 square yard of cotton organdy.
Status: Complete
Date started: 9/24/2009
Date finished: 10/18/2009
Action # 4: Type onto a roll of Mohawk Superfine paper, 2 inches in width, every seven-letter word in English (24,029 words), using an IBM Selectric Model 71 typewriter. List of words compiled by students in the math department at the University of Toronto; typewriter purchased at a yard sale in the fall of 2000 in “as is condition”; type ball capable of typing no more than seven characters in a line.
Status: Letters A-F complete (8,270 words)
Date started: 9/22/2009
Date finished:
Action # 5: Photograph in one session every step of my route from home to studio using a Cannon Powershot SD800 IS Digital Elph and a 2 gigabyte memory card. Distance between my home and my studio, according to Google Maps, is 3.6 miles, resulting in 7,480 steps. Images displayed on a TV in video format using Boinx iStopMotion and iDVD software, created on a PowerBook G4.
Status: Complete
Date started: Walk - 10/11/2009
Date finished: Video – 10/20/2009
