#7. An Art A Day - Day 1 In the Next Year...

For this week's project I decided to make an art a day.

The definition of "art" is a very tricky one, and it got trickier in the modern times.

I major in Art History, but I confess that I haven't really delved into this question. (I am not much into the history of modern & contemporary art, having ironically lost interest in it after taking three courses on it... :P I prefer Renaissance and Baroque art)

Although I think there should be some boundaries on what art is, I also think that we may as well expand our preconceived notion on art a bit.

Well, anyway, so I made an art.

I call it "In the Next Year..." 

It is made of patches (actually, not the patches themselves, but the papers (?) that came along) I have used for the last four weeks. I use them because I have a bad spine--lower head, neck, shoulders, arms, wrists, fingers, back, hip, knees, ankles, you name it. :P I had no idea how much patches I use, so four weeks ago I decided on a whim not to throw away these papers (and bandaids, which I use to anchor(?) the patches and also for tiny injuries).

And last night I pulled them out of the pile that I used to gather them.  

This is how it looked first: on my yoga mat.

I started sorting them out..

Frankly I was a bit surprised by their number, even more so because I was lucky to pass the last month without particular injuries.

Okay, so sometimes art serves as a tool for self-exploration, introspection, and therapy. 

But when I was making this I wasn't particularly thinking of those things. I was more focused on how to arrange these objects in a neat and quick manner. (For when I made this it was pretty late at night :P)

But I guess that making these as objects for an art can mean something as well. :)

So here it is, after more than an hour and half, the final product:

I made the title "In the Next Year..." because I wanted to take a year to use this much patches, rather than a month. In short, while I was making this I decided to try harder to get better. :D

By the way doesn't the above picture look a bit like a piano and musical notes?

I hope that I created something that is visually pleasing, to some extent. :P

Today's project has a special meaning for me, for it tells a story about my illness and how I want to overcome it. :)