The 59th minute 2015 - Artist Book
cover: letterpress on card
pages: bleach, gel pen,, washi tape, on card.
closed: 7.3 cm x 14.8 cm x 3.4 cm. open: width variable - 445.3 cm x 14.8 cm x 0.1cm
Selected Art on Show, Artspace Mackay 2015
Bleach extracts and expunges, gradually congesting the 59 cards to efface the primal blackness.
Binary number systems expand in exponential growth with population increasing from one by way of two.
A shroud for humanity.
We have already passed the 59th minute
"Let me give you a test tube full of food for bacteria, that represents our world. I am going to put one bacterial cell into that test tube (representing us), and it is going to divide every minute; that is exponential growth. So at time zero you have one cell; one minute you have two; two minutes you have four; three minutes you have eight; four minutes you have 16. That is exponential growth and at 60 minutes the test tube is completely full of bacteria and there is no food left, a sixty minute cycle."
Spend a minute with David Suzuki: http://testtube.nfb.ca/