Hold Up

This week I put the comic strip on hold to figure out how I'm gonna execute this self-portrait/calendar. While continuing to record data for the month of January, I started figuring out execution details for a final representation.

First off, in my calendar, I want to divide the week into two halves. My calm half and wild half. The first 3 days of the week, Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, will constitute a first line of 3 symbols. The last 4 days of the week, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, will constitute a second line of 4 symbols. That will continue for the rest of the weeks of the month/months I record.

I designed 6 symbols for the 6 vices/impulses I act on in any given day. I rubylith'd them and burned them into my screen. Each symbol will be silkscreened in a semi-transparent color in the roughly 2X2 spot that corresponds to each day of the month. Because these symbols are transparent, I'll be printing each vice on top of each other if they occurred on the same day. Therefore, each combination of experiences creates a new color/new experience. It's calendrics, it's history, and most importantly, it's a self-portrait.

The designwork inside each symbol abstracts a feeling that each vice produces or the physical objects involved with each vice. The meanings behind each symbol won't be clear to the viewer, but I am still presenting them with a set of real, raw data.

I have been keeping a dream journal for the last 3 weeks and somehow want to also incorporate these internal visions into the calendar for given dates as well but don't know how to approach that yet because I'm not able to remember every dream/sometimes I don't dream, etc.