Monday 1 September - day -3
The exhibition space is mine! Previous work has been taken down... and hundreds of tiny marks are now visible on the white walls, and must be painted over.
The more marks are painted over, the more marks become visible.
While working, I am put in mind of an artist called Hiwa K. Kurdish, he attended art school in Germany before coming to the UK. He began by painting all the marks off the white walls.
He did this every day. When he returned from a week's absence, someone else had taken over his space and there was blue paint everywhere. Patiently, he began returning every square centimetre to pure white.
Eventually they called him in and demanded to know when he was going to produce some work. His response was to continue painting the walls, even though they didn't realise this was the work. Oh, and he hung a pair of rubber gloves off the clock.
They threw him out.
Hail Hiwa K, for making us notice the minute, the medium, the surface, the Forth Bridge-ness of the life without mindfulness.
All photos copyright Indigo Violet Larkin 2014.
More on Hiwa K at http://hiwak.net/
For those not familiar with Scotland's Forth Bridge, the idea is that as soon as the worker finishes painting it, the work needs to start all over again in a never ending cycle.
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