sculpture series (prints on marble tile), 2019-2020
Zoey Hart. how we spend our days. 2019-2020. Etching and transfer-print on marble and porcelain tile. 15″ x 15″ marble grid.
To quote writer Annie Dillard: “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives”. This project considers the ‘substance’ of our time— and honors the unique structures we each build to give shape and meaning to the understated moments that fill our days.
In the context of a life that is, for whatever hosts of reasons, less predictable, listing can provide a sense of stability and control. Often existing within the context of time, lists are a super-multi-functional tool we use to schedule, plan, remind, remember, highlight, reprimand, multitask, and otherwise subdivide our focus and cognitive energy. As there’s no set of official ‘rules’ for how to visually organize life, each person’s lists are functionally unique- reflecting their own needs both practically and inherent in their evolved design.
This iteration of How We Spend Our Days highlights pre-covid scheduling ephemera from Art Beyond Sight’s 2019-20 Art & Disability Residency cohort. Initially, the lists were processed for laser-cutting into the surface of marble tiles. However, the covid-updated revision of the project found me hand-transferring a collection of personal notes and lists, with a needle, onto marble tiles and shards.
(above: how we spend our days. 2019-2020. Etching and transfer-print on marble and porcelain tile. 15″ x 15″ marble grid.)
Full project can be found on support structures website
Zoey A Hart 