Attention in everyday life

Almost every day you have to spend a few seconds of your precious time to wait for a traffic light to change green. But how many people nowadays have that patience? I have, but I think I'm a special case.

When you live in a big city you see more traffic lights than trees. In 1999, Pierre Viviant created a traffic light tree which is located in east Londen.

Patience in the past

Even in the past artists were interested in patience. The famous duo Ulay & Marina Abramovic started their cooperation in 1976. Every year on the 23rd of April, the birthday of both of them, they did a performance. In 1977 they did the performance “relation in time”. Sitting on the floor with their backs against each other and their hair knotted together.

Waiting…

Till they were too tired and exacted to sit straight. It took 16 hours before they collapsed.

Ulay & Marina Abromovic are still an inspiration. Here are examples of fashion editorials from Fashion Copius & Bettina Komenda

attention on the highway

Probable everybody knows the annoying situation on the road, when a truck is going to pass. You need to slow down, change gear and have a lot of patience.

The French photographer Eric Tabuchi has that patience and attention. He created an alphabet by observing the rear of trucks. For his book ‘Alphabet truck’ he spend a lot time on the highway. It took him four years and thousands of kilometres of driving to create this book.

The pictures of the trucks are all shot within a 250-km radius from Paris. I have a lot of admiration for the Tabuchi’s patience.