These page-a-day diaries are absurd objects about attempting to make time
perceptible in a constant state or something like that (although the diary or any object is not in a constant state, but is deteriorating).
You can demonstrate space; you can see how big or far something (e.g. how big this computer is) but you cannot see how long time is.
This diary has form which plays on our perception of distance. Using a false perspective to
exaggerate how far the last page appears from the front of the diary. As we move through time (measured here by the calendar year) we are traveling along the thickness of the diary. Time as distance. A long way, a long time.
Although the pages narrow as the year goes on, they also get taller.
The last page (December 31st) is half the width and twice the height of the first page (January 1st) so all the pages have the same surface area. All the days have the same length (unlike the Daylight Hours diary).
The diary is doomed to fail for a number of reasons. My favourite is that it only works when we are at the
beginning of the year, viewing the diary from the front. As we move through the year the false perspective no longer makes sense.
The page for day we are in should always appear as the biggest with the
beginning of the year (now the past)
disappearing into the distance
as well as the end of the year (the future).
These page-a-day diaries are absurd objects about attempting to make time perceptible in a constant state or something like that (although the diary or any object is not in a constant state, but is deteriorating).
You can demonstrate space; you can see how big or far something (e.g. how big this computer is) but you cannot see how long time is.
This diary has form which plays on our perception of distance. Using a false perspective to exaggerate how far the last page appears from the front of the diary. As we move through time (measured here by the calendar year) we are traveling along the thickness of the diary. Time as distance. A long way, a long time.
Although the pages narrow as the year goes on, they also get taller.
The last page (December 31st) is half the width and twice the height of the first page (January 1st) so all the pages have the same surface area. All the days have the same length (unlike the Daylight Hours diary).
The diary is doomed to fail for a number of reasons. My favourite is that it only works when we are at the beginning of the year, viewing the diary from the front. As we move through the year the false perspective no longer makes sense.
The page for day we are in should always appear as the biggest with the beginning of the year (now the past) disappearing into the distance as well as the end of the year (the future).
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