Tehching Tsieh's work is one of those that make you re-evaluate your life and that stay with you forever...
Before knowing him I had done a couple year-long projects:
"You Are What You Eat"- photos of everything I ate during a year, before cellphone cameras ruined dining experiences.
"You Are What You Wear" - a different white t-shirt each day, with the date printed on.
"Subway Reading" - where in the last days of December I bought a copy of the book I had seen someone on the subway reading, and on January I started reading it on my commute to work. Before finishing it, I started looking for someone else reading, took note of that book, and bought and read it. I ended reading 19 books...
For the food project, at the end, seeing everything I ate, we noticed how bad it was, even though there was practically no fast-food anything in it, and changed our diets.
For the t-shirts, it was so liberating not having to decide what to wear. I'm a man, so for me t-shirt and jeans is enough, but having to dress up according to the planned activities of the day is a pain...
And for the subway reading, it's sad that you now barely see anybody with a book. And now that I work from home, I do miss the couple hours that I could read without interruptions...
"Plans are what we do to make God laugh"
(don't know who said it, but it's been a mantra for me for many years...)
Tehching Tsieh's work is one of those that make you re-evaluate your life and that stay with you forever...
Before knowing him I had done a couple year-long projects:
"You Are What You Eat"- photos of everything I ate during a year, before cellphone cameras ruined dining experiences.
"You Are What You Wear" - a different white t-shirt each day, with the date printed on.
"Subway Reading" - where in the last days of December I bought a copy of the book I had seen someone on the subway reading, and on January I started reading it on my commute to work. Before finishing it, I started looking for someone else reading, took note of that book, and bought and read it. I ended reading 19 books...
For the food project, at the end, seeing everything I ate, we noticed how bad it was, even though there was practically no fast-food anything in it, and changed our diets.
For the t-shirts, it was so liberating not having to decide what to wear. I'm a man, so for me t-shirt and jeans is enough, but having to dress up according to the planned activities of the day is a pain...
And for the subway reading, it's sad that you now barely see anybody with a book. And now that I work from home, I do miss the couple hours that I could read without interruptions...
"Plans are what we do to make God laugh"
(don't know who said it, but it's been a mantra for me for many years...)