Forty, For You, 2020. Suite of 40 paintings on paper each with accompanying music. All paintings in the suite: acrylic on paper, 10 inches square.
Forty, For You
Throughout my career I have consistently explored how to create experiential contexts that can highlight contemporary reductive abstraction as a direct response to conditions of the world.
In early 2020, driven by a desire to establish a contemplative experience of space and time within the format of an often endless social media scroll, I created the project "Forty, For You," harnessing the social media platform Instagram's default presentation of square images and 1-minute of video which looped automatically in the user's feed. I chose the contemplative 40-day season of Lent as a chronological framework.
Beginning on February 26, I began to make a suite of 40 paintings on paper, which were accompanied by 40, 1-minute original ambient musical compositions. On Instagram, these could be viewed as a still image while the music looped to the viewer's desired length. The pieces were created and released daily through April 11. The project took on an unforeseen significance as it unfolded against the backdrop of the global coronavirus pandemic, with hundreds of millions of people sheltering at home for months.
The works on paper measure 10” square, and the series was made in triplicate. Creating the paintings this way meant a certain degree of arrangement, rehearsal, and performance which corresponded to aspects of the way music is made.
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The music and images of this project are also available in physical or downloadable book form.
