A Year if a Day is a consideration of stopped motion during the COVID-19 quarantine. To examine the passing of time, to gain assurance that the Earth is still turning, this is a collection of stop-motion looping GIFs made while sheltering at home. In the event of their installation, they’d loop on phones, laptops, television screens, monitors, and as projections in a bid to convey how the great many of us watched our days pass on screens. We worked from home, our dread and anger grew as we scrolled on social media, and to preserve our sanity we retreated into television and video games. Likewise, A Year if a Day, the title referencing a common idiom used to express disbelief about the passing of time, asks viewers to watch days pass on screens.
A Year if a Day is a project in progress, and will endure in its production until the COVID-19 pandemic and quarantine in the US comes to a close.