Location: Blanca (translated as “white”), a small town in the driest and hottest region of Spain in July. I have been thinking a lot about the sun’s violently illuminating power and the possibilities of taking refuge in shade (also in one’s inner shade/shadow, when the heat has almost taken away the last remnants of my reason), and about the relationship with the impossible – the desire to make the invisible visible and to converse with time as equal.
Duration: as long as the boundary between shadow and light crosses a small street in Blanca.
Materials: organic white paint (chalk, flour, water), brush, bucket. The line that emerges when shadow meets light.
Idea: to wait, to observe, to catch the sun – to measure and record the rotation of the Earth by drawing the borders between light and shadow created by the silhouettes of rooftops, balconies, and lampposts. I traced these boundaries back and forth as the light/shadow border crossed the street.
In the end, a subjective record of time appears on the street.

Photos – Laura Turpin, Dana, Kristine Treasure Hunter
Video – Selu Hernandez
ON DURATION curated by Raegan Truax 2025 Summer residency organized by AADK Spain. Photo: Laura Turpin
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