Post-It Note Project
Every night before I go to bed I draw a picture on a post-it note, depicting a moment from the day as it ends. Post-its are the epitome of an ordinary effort at remembering, designed to hold on to things slipping from your mind. Instead of using them to remember household tasks, work deadlines or lists, I keep them as a visual record of my life - acknowledging both the urgency and the ordinariness of my desire to hold on to passing moments. While making these helps me preserve memories, it is also a continual reminder that the days pass with or without my acquiescence, and we cannot hold on to everything. The project started in 2005 and grows nightly, currently including over 3,000 pieces.
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Band-Aid ProjectWhile living in England, I started placing band-aids on outdoor statues as if they had been mildly hurt (a skinned knee, shaving cut, split nail) and needed some healing attention, hoping to make someone laugh, look at the statue with new eyes, or feel touched by the care I'd given it. The band-aids turn enduring bronze monuments briefly into vulnerable, impermanent people, showing an ordinary little wound on them through the same object that heals it. In some ways, the longer we survive, the more wounds we carry around. I am fascinated by the way a band-aid can indicate vulnerability and toughness at once - the process of being wounded and going on anyway - the way it both marks and covers up a wound, how its presence shows the hurt simultaneous to the healing. The fact that they are ordinary, flawed objects given to children or administered for ourselves just makes them even more magical. |
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