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Danica Phelps - August 16th
Artist's Biography: Danica Phelps' work picks up conceptual precedents not only in taking economics as an object of work, but also in the very practice of data collection, of exhaustiveness, of that taking down of the facts that have qualified much of conceptual practices.Since 1996 Danica Phelps has documented all of her income and expenses through her drawings, in a system that grows progressively in lines of work and complexity. In this system, each drawing is a representation of a daily activity, and a documentation of a financial transaction: each dollar is represented by a single watercolor line, green for income, red for expenses and gray for credit.The result is an immense personal diary, although to speak of a result is complicated, firstly because the work is still in process, secondly because the work itself is not so much a work as a trace, a document of bits of life and everydayness.
Time accumulates in moments that add up to the present, even if we do not remember the details or most of those moments. Each one is impossible without the previous one and brings with it all the others, shaping us in a way similar to the earth and its strata, millions of years of history piled one on top of the other. A child manifests more and more with each experience, until a time comes when he decides who he wants to be. Founding traces that period of the artist's son's life through a journey through Arizona's Colorado Canyon. The drawings capture the way the artist watches her son grow up, and the lines under each drawing document the expenses of the trip, gas, camping, car rental, all carefully plotted. If the lines representing the artist's expenses and income are always vertical, and have become a fundamental element of her practice, in this project they become horizontal, establishing a visual parallelism with the strata visible in the geological formations and the landscape.
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