One Moment
instructor: Ben Hooker
One Moment - the story about how one moment can morph into a web of uncontrolled actions.
Settle on one dynamic system and explore it and visualize it, but in a way that is different and strange, maybe poetic. If you and an alien looked at one system, what would be interesting to the alien?
This is how I approached this assignment. And actually this whole system came more like a suspire than anything else and I actually did feel like an alien,because I have never ever been in such a situation before.
A few weeks into the assignment, I have been looking at Wast Managements, when I crashed on my road bicycle and could not get up by myself. This one little second felt like an explosion, like a spider web of an explosion. Phone calls back and forth. I felt like it was growing by the inch, so I compared my phone bill of the month of the accident with the month be before in inches - shocking.
Patterned appeared, people started reappearing from phone calls to meeting them in person and later their name on a bill. Sometimes it took 12 rounds of back and forth till everyone was happy. Suddenly some of my friend were closely knitted into my daily routine and I received amazing and strange gifts.
On my daily walks strangers would tell me their stories of their accident memories or a horror story they have heard fro ma friend... My physical therapist gave me a selection of different strength rubber bands. I kept close track of how many minutes and miles I spend with the trainers.... and so on.
And then once in a while between all this data and moments you'll find little notes of things I was longing for, like hanging on a jungle gym, tying my hair, swimming, putting a bra on the normal way...
Written, illustrated, printed, and bound in Los Angeles, March, 2009
With a special thanks to Dad, Mom, Luke, and Liz and everyone else in the moment, that made me smile, repaired me, collected scattered parts, tied my hair, carried my bags, drove me around, brought me flowers, send me e-mails, cards, letters, and cookies, called and texted me, brought me games, toys, and videos, burned me cds, took me out, went on walks with me, and told me horrifying stories about their accidents...
