I'm fine
I'm fine
For this project I asked the question: ‘if you say a word often enough does it lose its meaning?’ As Phil Kaye said in his poem '‘Repetition’’: ‘You watch the sun set too often, it just becomes 6 PM. You make the same mistake over and over; you’ll stop calling it a mistake’. I always get annoyed by the question: ‘how are you’ in the form of a greeting. It is like ‘hi’ nowadays and completely lost its meaning for people dont expect honest response anymore they expect you to say: ‘I’m fine’ My project is about this very sentence: ‘I’m fine’.
‘Fin’
‘Fin is what you are likely to see at the end of French of other Latin based movies. It means ‘the end’. I made Fin into a living being. Fin is scared to open up to people. Fin has learned that the correct answer to anyone asking how he is, is ‘I’m fine’. Until a girl comes by and is truly interested in finding the true feelings of Fin.
‘I’m fine’
Back to losing the meaning of words when you say them often enough. I challenged myself to write ‘I’m fine’ as many times as I can on a A1 format page. Doing this was to see if I would really lose the meaning of the words. I noticed writing it down so many times, started to feel more like work than something with a meaning and it just became a project less than a statement. It wasn’t until after I finished I looked back and thought: ‘wow this word really hits harder when you see it written over and over again. Where you feel like it loses its meaning, when it's made visible it looks quite terrifying and confronting. Like you have been saving them all up, until one day there might not be space anymore and it explodes.
A1 presented with a projection of the film ‘Fin’