“ the problem is that we are, and are about not to be.
ROMAN OPALKA
this man is deeply interesting. & it’s so rad to find this on noah’s site because of the now-obvious similarities in projects of the two artists that i hadn’t realized before… from wikipedia:
In 1968 Opalka introduced a tape recorder, speaking each number into the microphone as he paints it, and he also began photographing himself standing before the canvas after each day’s work, a ritual bookkeeping of time passing. The process is endless, but measured against its goal - infinity - it is as naught: ‘the problem is that we are, and are about not to be’.
