I hope this penny project doesn’t come to feel like a burden. I suppose it will, some days. But that’s part of the idea: the weight of my days. If I live to be 100, the weight of my days is about 90 pounds. A penny weighs 2.5 grams – that is less than a tenth … read more Day 7: The weight of it
Category: Pennies
The Weight of My Days: the pennies and their history and meaning, the sculpture I’m making from 16,072 pennies. How to build something big from something small
Day XX: Time calc
44 years 385,704 hours 528 months
Day 1: I am 56 years old
What can you do with 16,252 pennies? I’m beginning a new art project today to find out. The Goal: a dynamic sculpture that represents the way that small individual elements of time cohere to make a whole, one which changes with each addition Its working title is: If I Live to Be a Hundred … An Accounting of … read more Day 1: I am 56 years old