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The
film — currently just over thirty minutes long — has properties I
hoped it might. At 30fps, images flash by so quickly that there is no hope of
seeing them all. It is impossible to interpret them or construct a coherent narrative,
though patterns present themslves: my compositional ticks are maddeningly apparent,
for example. Yet
individual images continually emerge clearly: a face, a word, a place, a landscape...
but even as each of these is identified and named, another and then another again
is supplanting it, relentlessly. This
is a film with many subjects. One of them is process:
the process of its making, of course; but also the processes of perception and
cognition; the process of memory.
I once considered naming the final movie Mnemosyne,
after the spring of memory: it is a media object not unlike that river, full and
fast moving and perilous. (It is quicksilver, and will never give up more than
a fraction of itself.) The
pictures I shoot beyond the necessary thirty are archived and may be compiled
into a second film containing every single image I shoot. At present I am averaging
just under 125 images a day. It
may come as a surprise that I have not yet settled on a soundtrack. To
support this and my other projects, I am selling the days of my life.
A 'day' is a set of digital prints, one each of the thirty images that document
my life on that day, from waking to sleep. Each set is packaged in a small protective
box and signed. Only
one copy of each day is available. Some days document events not suitable
for all viewers.
If
you're interested in purchasing a day, write
me to inquire about availability and pricing. | 
