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Every One

Every One, Started 2018

This project visualizes the population of various cities by painting one mark per inhabitant. To this day, it has been completed in Bucharest, New York City, Savannah, and Shanghai. Emerging from its meditative repetition, this work invites reflection on the many lives we rub against in a city and on the few we truly know or even acknowledge. The labor of this process addresses the difficulty of grasping large numbers and exemplifies the necessity of knowing through making. It honors the earning of knowledge through experience and searches for the incomparable impact of visually and physically understanding abstract concepts greater than ourselves. In a world of instant information with statistics at the tip of our fingers, Every One offers a very literal yet human way of employing data to better relate to others, by translating abstract numbers into more visceral time and space.

Every One (Shanghai), 2019-2020
26,317,104 ink marks on rice paper
17 rolls, 20” x 328’ / 50cm x 100m each
One mark per person living in Shanghai (150 marks at a time).

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One mark per person living in Shanghai (150 marks at a time).

Every One (Savannah), 2019
155,109 ink marks on Kozo-Shi mulberry paper
4 x 50’ / 1.2 x 15 m
One mark per person living in Savannah (50 marks at a time).

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One mark per person living in Savannah (50 marks at a time).

Every One (New York City), 2018
8,622,698 ink marks on translucent plotter paper
8 rolls: 36” x 150’ / 0.9 x 45.7 m each
One mark per person living in New York City (150 marks at a time).

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One mark per person living in New York City (150 marks at a time).

Every One (Bucharest), 2018
(At least) 2,132,000 ink marks on recycled paper
5.5’ x 500’ / 1.7 x 150 m
One mark per person living in Bucharest (150 marks at a time).

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One mark per person living in Bucharest (150 marks at a time).