strips
Each day of the month deserves it's own sliver of celebration
Step 1
Growing up with ADD, I was always fascinated by the ability and the tenacity of some artists to spend a month or more on a painting. Sometimes years! And as well as being impressed, I also wondered how the painting was affected by the day to day happenings and moods of the painter.
How could I force myself to spend a month on one painting?
So I took a few photos of myself - and set about to paint a self portrait in 31 days. I then printed the photo onto a normal sized peice of paper, and then cut it into 31 equal, vertical strips, and numbered them.The, I took a large piece of paper 4 times the size, and cut stripes out of that of proportiaonally the same size.
Step 2
Each day, I would take a strip of the photo, and interpret it onto the new, larger piece of paper 4 times the size. But now, the strps were no longer a face, but were merely colors and forms.
I would interpret these in whatever medium I felt appropriate for the day.
One day, charcoal, or pen and ink. Maybe spray paint or magazine clippings. Wallpaper.
I would interpret, and then put it away - destroying the original piece of the photo afterward.
Step 3
So, in the end I was dealing with a big puzzle of sorts. And the fisrt time I put it all together to see the final piece I ended up with. Truly a month?