Sanded recording of a decade

Audio file presented by Non-Event. 2020. Listen.

“To have a definite beginning and a definite, predictable end is the mark of fabrication, which through this characteristic alone distinguishes itself from all other human activities…"
- Hannah Arendt, “Work” in The Human Condition

It's a recording of me sanding down a small wooden object. This is only one short document of a ten-year period I spent working intermittently on this object — a 40-minute recording that documents the rhythms and resonances of that work.