records of senses_Index
records of senses_Index is an ongoing serial practice combining two-hour graphite drawings with retrospective sensory logging. The series examines what happens when an experience that is largely simultaneous, unstable, and difficult to verbalize is translated into marks, categories, words, and numbers. Each session uses three grades of graphite—H4, 2B, and 8B—within a fixed duration of approximately 120 minutes. The image is not planned in advance. It develops through interactions between hand, pencil, paper, sound, vision, fatigue, attention, and movement. These interactions are not experienced as a sequence of explicit decisions. Much of the adjustment happens before it can be isolated or put into words. The drawing is therefore not a direct record of sensation, but a material trace produced through a process whose full complexity remains inaccessible even to the person performing it. After each drawing, I retrospectively log selected aspects of the session. The categories have changed over time and can include tactile friction, fatigue, visual adaptation, sensory satisfaction, consistency, sound awareness, urge to stop, pencil use, sharpening, and other practical or perceptual information. The resulting numbers are not measurements. A single value assigned to a two-hour experience necessarily involves memory, compression, averaging, selection, and interpretation. That distortion is part of the work. The log is an edited display of what I have chosen to make visible from an experience that cannot be fully categorized. A category reveals not only what may have been present, but what I decided was worth naming. Changes in the logging system therefore register changes not only in experience, but in the framework through which I choose to examine and present it. The act of logging can also affect what follows. Once a sensation has been named or introduced as a category, it may become easier to notice in later sessions. The system therefore does not stand outside the experience as neutral documentation. The “Index” in the title refers to this accumulation of partial traces: drawings, categories, numerical values, material information, and retrospective responses. records of senses_Index is not an archive of sensory facts, but an evolving record of repeated encounters and of the changing ways I attempt to make those experiences legible.
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