11^th of February 2010

“For the past couple of weeks I have been painting the one called “out of time” or something like that. Still not sure which name it will end up with.

For the past week I have only been painting the puzzle of numbers that makes up the background.(I still haven´t finished. It´s taking me forever. Lots of interesting things have been going on while I was “only doing numbers”. At the beginning it was fun to fit the shape of one number into another, which would then become part of yet another. Using only 0 to 9.

The first day of this work I wasn´t sure whether i had made the right decision. It meant getting bored. My mind wanted to balance the occurrence of each number. I also found myself wanting to combine the numbers into different layouts each time. How does one make each combination different when one is only using the digits 0 to 9?

At times I see a single number fitting perfectly into all the spaces, and must try to include the others. Sometimes I let myself relax, and just do what comes spontaneously or mechanically.