678
29days(24hours)= 696h
-12 (March 3)
-6 (March 31)
=678
+3? (unknown variable)
What would you do with 678 hours?
Is it possible to take a moment of time- in this case the total length of time for the entire duration of a residency (678 hours)- and be so efficient to equal that amount of time, to represent each hour, with a new work of art?
On March 3rd 2012, at 12:00noon, the doors open to the public at the Huntington Beach Art Center’s 2012 Artist In Residence Exhibition. I am one of 3 artists who were asked to participate in this years residency program in which artists are asked to work in the gallery space and encouraged to create works of art which engage the public and evolve over time- I took this literally. The residency continues until 6:00pm on March 31, at which time a public reception for the artists and the finished works of art will be held- until 9:00pm. What happens in those 3 additional hours is anyone’s guess.
I have chosen a project that pushes what is possible into an actual documentation of creative sweat equity to produce art representing time as it moves, passes by, and is gone forever. What is left after this time is a work(s) of art which documents time in physical material. The art is a byproduct of creative production equal to time elapsed.
The material- my material of choice -is paper. I will be working with the HBAC and the local community at large to bring paper of every kind to the art center during regular business hours. I will use this material to create random and spontaneous small collage compositions. These collages will be hung on a large wall in the order of each representative hour- a “collage timeline”. Some collages may be simple, others complicated, and some very labor intensive. In the end there will be a documentation of ways to utilize time efficiently and creatively, as well as the random act of creating which not only influences our creative process but also how it is affected by it.
note: the images above are from a series of 3 pieces I did called "One" (2006-2007), "Another One" (2007-2008), and "Last One" (2008-2009). This series is a collage a day, on that day, every day for one year. I took one day off between each year before starting the next year.
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