Daily Practice (2021)
During the pandemic, the amount of time I spent on compulsions significantly worsened, impacting my work and ability to function. In my frustration about the time lost to compulsions, I made the compulsions and time spent on them my practice itself. When thinking about time and place in terms of my own personal narrative and observations of my daily life, I found that notable experiences and observations were difficult to recall because of the amount of time that I spent on compulsions, and subsequently in trying to make up for the time lost.
Daily Practice consists of recorded time that I spent on physical compulsions (excluding the total mental time)and what I was thinking about during that time. In all of their self-destructive qualities, the compulsions are something that inevitably worsened during periods of isolation and continue every single day. In their documentation and installation in my place of isolation, the compulsions act as a non-linear storytelling of what was happening in my life and my experience of crip time as a result of the pandemic. Daily Practice visualizes and marks my otherwise invisible experience during the COVID-19 pandemic.
