VW’s outwards4- sunbleaching & time

Probably coming from the Artist’s Grandfather Eating a bowl of Soup work, I am thinking of homes and very slow accumulation. Also still “passive capture” techniques. A few examples of sun-bleaching from r/mildlyinteresting: blue paper with dark rectangles faded in, red shopping baskets, a key on a sticky note with imprint

[Blue paper], [shopping baskets], [key and note].

I think sun-bleaching is good at translating immense amounts of time into incredibly subtle things. I like the idea that a shadow isn’t passive/ephemeral. Mrs. Homegrown posts about dust.

Two artist videos that I found kind of similar to that train of thought are Home Tape Revised by Lynda Benglis, and Birthday Suit with scars and defects by Lisa Steele.

The one by Benglis (above) is her narrating over old videos of family, and has a quality of dissociation both through time and the motif of watching her life play back through a screen. It’s interesting to be more personal with the viewer than to her own experiences. [link to full video, requires login]

The one by Steele (above) functions a lot like a combination of sun-bleached home-places and Bengalis’ narrative style. Bodies and houses are fairly equivocal, so I’m sure finding the specific differences leads somewhere. [link to full video, requires login]

A few more pieces that came to mind mostly thinking about time-passage capture-methods:

Francis Alÿs, Zocalo, May 22, 1999 (1999)

Portrait of many people, representing any individual’s drawl/likelihood to standing in the shade. [link]

Ben Kinsley, Street With A View (2008)

Using google-street maps as a camera. Proves that the street-map photos aren’t ambiguous in time. [link]

Nina Katchadourian, Monument to the Unelected (2016)

Election cycles as a time-measuring metric. Also yard-signs as passive-capture of a house’s residents. [link]