KVB127
OPEN TASK 2
I extended one of images from my [Siteworks II] work to produce a gif.
I am in love with the 1960s and 70s minimalism and conceptual art movement, and I find a lot of my views of art influenced by the attitudes of that time.
For example, right after my first studio session in week 1, I felt very passionate and dramatic about art and wrote myself a manifesto-type list of 'rules' for my art:
I am in love with the 1960s and 70s minimalism and conceptual art movement, and I find a lot of my views of art influenced by the attitudes of that time.
For example, right after my first studio session in week 1, I felt very passionate and dramatic about art and wrote myself a manifesto-type list of 'rules' for my art:
REPEAT AFTER ME
REPEAT AFTER ME
REPEAT AFTER ME
REPEAT AFTER ME
REPEAT AFTER ME
REPEAT AFTER ME
REPEAT AFTER ME
REPEAT AFTER ME
4 HOUR TASK
The Idea
To record the number plate of every car that stops at a red light intersection, over a 4-hour period.
I recorded the registration number of the first car in every lane, that stopped at the Peel St and Merivale St crossing traffic lights, during the 4 hour period of 12:30 pm to 4:30 pm on a Saturday (29/02/20).
The grid was made beforehand, on a word document. The last letter/number of each hour is coloured red.

During group crit, Bailey Lang mentioned that this reminds him of Agnes Martin's works.
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My intension was to set specific rules for a task/process and carry them out.
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The work captures a scene of traffic during a sample of time.
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The process was mechanical, though not mindless, because I had to see and decipher the number plates, and in doing so, automatically searched for patterns.
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The arrangement of the numbers and letters on the grid has taken away our immediate urge to view them as individual cars. Rather, they are now, one big entity. On viewing, we can now stretch our imagination by combining letters and numbers from different cars to create new words and combinations; almost treat it as a word search.
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When I first completed it, I saw it as a word search, but without an objective. Or the type of thing I would want to look at if I forgot to take my phone with me into the bathroom.
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It is an extension of a boredom activity
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It occupies the mind; keeps it active, without a goal. In that way, it is relaxing and in a way, meditative.