I also think of Roman Opalka, who is making his 1- infinite, 1965, which is
a continuous counting work, started by one, two, three, four, five etc. ad
infinitum. He writes the numbers in write with oil on black painted
canvases, and each time he ends with a canvas, he shoots a photo
selfportraict, always with the same frame. This picture is to be exhibited
with the painting. It's a great meditative work I like very much.
Since the 70's, he adds one per cent of white in the black he uses for the
bottom of the painting, each time he changes of canvas. Though, the numbers
written ( he has reached the billions I think) progressively disappear in
the painting which is becoming clearer and clearer...And you can see the
death at work on his face all those 35 years of countless counting.
