A WAY TO MEASURE TIME

ALISON LEE SCHROEDER

WATERCOLOR AND INK ON PAPER

10.5 X 14.5” EACH

2012-CURRENT

There are infinite ways to measure time. Originally, I used these mostly abstract watercolor paintings to count times meditated during one calendar year. It was the first time I truly explored meditation or watercolor, and the combination of the two was very gratifying for me.

Now the time that these hundreds of paintings measure has changed. The project spilled out of its original constraints and is no longer rooted in discipline. Paintings do not equate times meditated and times meditated do not equate days of a year, so the link to our traditional calibration of time has dissolved.

I periodically revisit the process to reconnect with the creative possibilities of deep release, and am happy to measure my own private time in this way.