Noor Fa'eezah Binte Mohd Jalal : William Anastasi : 60 minute, 1987

 

RESEARCH ON "60 minute"

Time is an interesting concept; people try to give their lives a sense of order and try to exercise some control over their lives. "Out of Time" was a well-orchestrated group exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, 2006. The exhibition raised the issue of the relationship between time and people. The show focused on variations on the theme of time. It was poetic and political.

 

For example, in William Anastasi's 60 Minutes, time was used as an element of physics; it is rigid and linear.

Reference link
http://seungaekim.blogspot.com/2008/03/william-anastasi.html

My reflection
Personally, upon my first view of the artwork by William Anastasi, the artwork itself got me thinking on what it is actually presenting. The pencil works allow the reader to interpret it differently. Upon my first look at his artwork, to me, it looks like a whole long stretch of hair strands.

As for the way he created the artwork is basically to draw or some might call it scribbling on the paper with a pencil without lifting it off the paper for 60 minutes. This reminds me of my childhood in which I remember clearly, I used to scribble randomly and asked my families and friends on what they can spot or see in the end product of the scribbling.

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