52 Card Project 2021: Week 39: Routine
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pegkerrI mark Fridays as the day I do a digital collage to depict the previous week. This is week 39, meaning I am 3/4 of the way through the year. Generally, by about Wednesday, I am giving serious thought to what the week's theme might be so that I can depict it in a collage, but this week was difficult. This is the first time I really floundered settling on a central idea or concept for the week.
There were things I had thought about, but I'd done collages about them already: sleep. Reading fanfiction. Trying to get healthier. What was individual and distinctive about this week? If anyone had asked me about what my life was like this week, I would have said, "Routine." I wasn't bored. I got up and went about my day. I exercised, I cooked, I ate, I did the dishes, I worked, I read, I watered the plants, I talked on the phone. I slept.
In this weird pandemic time, the days definitely seem to run together. Eventually, it begins to feel a little like Bill Murray's movie Groundhog Day. What makes this day different than the day before? Perhaps I feel it more acutely because I live alone. (It also made making this card annoying, too: all the pictures of me here show only one hand at the most because I am taking the picture with my other.)
It wasn't a difficult week (well, aside from the rigors of sleep boot camp). As I said I wasn't bored. I just . . . was.
Once I figured out what the week was about, the concept came together rather quickly, and I'm pleased with the result. You can't quite tell because of the transparency overlay, but in the upper left corner I am washing dishes and in the upper right corner I am cooking. The other pictures are pretty straightforward, I believe.
Routine
Click here to read about the 52 card project and see the year's gallery.
There were things I had thought about, but I'd done collages about them already: sleep. Reading fanfiction. Trying to get healthier. What was individual and distinctive about this week? If anyone had asked me about what my life was like this week, I would have said, "Routine." I wasn't bored. I got up and went about my day. I exercised, I cooked, I ate, I did the dishes, I worked, I read, I watered the plants, I talked on the phone. I slept.
In this weird pandemic time, the days definitely seem to run together. Eventually, it begins to feel a little like Bill Murray's movie Groundhog Day. What makes this day different than the day before? Perhaps I feel it more acutely because I live alone. (It also made making this card annoying, too: all the pictures of me here show only one hand at the most because I am taking the picture with my other.)
It wasn't a difficult week (well, aside from the rigors of sleep boot camp). As I said I wasn't bored. I just . . . was.
Once I figured out what the week was about, the concept came together rather quickly, and I'm pleased with the result. You can't quite tell because of the transparency overlay, but in the upper left corner I am washing dishes and in the upper right corner I am cooking. The other pictures are pretty straightforward, I believe.
Click here to read about the 52 card project and see the year's gallery.
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Date: 2021-10-01 09:55 pm (UTC)P.
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