2010 - A Year At A Glance

This project is constructed around the daily entries made in my appointment book for 2010. The imagery on each spread is built loosely around the text of my working schedule for each week of the year. Creating these shapes was a long meditative process similar with automatic dictation but avoiding any figuration. Using markers with colored ink and metallic gold and silver inks, the writing was gradually covered by layers of grids that resemble warped graphic representations of Space-Time continuum as in an attempt to capture the visual essence of the energy of that week. On most spreads appears a shadow drawing, generated by the ghost image seen through the paper from the drawing on the other side. Most of the drawings were made during my commute from home to my studio and back, occupying the so called idle time generated during traveling or different others periods of waiting. The main art work is the agenda with the original drawings accompanied by (an edition of five) 52 digital prints - 11" x 8.5" each - of the spreads corresponding to each week of the year. On the first edition each digital print is reworked with, again gold and silver metallic paint markers, the drawing going beyond the original format (7" x 7.5") until a satisfactory balance is achieved.