Practice of the Daily, November 22, 2011.
Another day with limited photographs. It was too rainy.
I spoke today with a friend, another artist, about why I’m interested in the daily. What I’m hoping to get out of this investigation of the daily. And I began to think about rituals. The things we do over time, repetitively, whether we want them to or not, build up to be rituals.
When you think about it like that, as ritual, every action has a lot more weight. The shape of our days begins to mean something. Sure, we can do things in passing, but would we want them ritualized?
“Maybe,” I said, “we’re doing terrible things to ourselves very gradually, over long periods of time, but we don’t know because we don’t really know what our days look like. And then we do something awful to another person and think, ‘how could I do that?’ It’s shocking.”
For this reason, the daily becomes desperately important. The recognition of what we do is a recognition of who we are.
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