“120 Hours” is a data visualization sculpture representing how I spend time within a work week; 24 hours for five days.

I’ve struggled with time management and balancing a healthy lifestyle over the past few years since living independently. Often too engaged in my work, my physical health and mental capacity was deteriorating. My insecurities regarding the fear of failure caused me to be over-invested in my passion for creation - this obsession would often take priority over basic functions, leaving me exhausted and translating into lazy and rushed work. To increase my productivity and achieve a balanced lifestyle within class, work, and socially, I’ve been obsessively tracking my days by the hour for the past seven months.

Since beginning this archive, my normally erratic and forgetful tendencies have been curved, ultimately creating a sense of belonging within the routine. In some way, it’s my ‘key to happiness.’ The color palette for this piece follows a similar theme in my work of bodily representation with muted colors alluding to aspects of the human body (blood, sweat, ect.). Each color represents a generalized task: black for class, red for work, clear for sleep and miscellaneous, yellow for social, tan for homework, and white for personal work. Displayed in a hallway, “120 Hours” is meant to be experienced in motion, walking past the piece and viewing the timeline chronologically. While in motion, the clear 1/4” acrylic half-circles transform and reveal a clear, gridded color.

I believe the piece is unfinished - ideally, a larger version would span across a hallway, with the acrylic pieces glued flush together. Possibly experimenting with animation engraved into each panel would be interesting as well.

2024 // acrylic half circles, acrylic paint // 120” x 3.5” x 2.5”

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