Destruction (DE)
Guðrún Arndís Tryggvadóttir 1980

Photo nr. 2 of 11 from the DESTRUCTION series, version Din A4 in color.
Photographed on a 6x6 cm colorslide with an Hasselblatt camera in the middle of the second day.
Assistant photographer: Herbert Rometsch.

Photographed at the same place and time on 11 days.
Photographer, camera, object (arm), background and other relevant aspects during the process remained the same.
Various daylight and weather conditions result in slight light and color variations from one photograph to the other.
The changing conditions of the letters on the arm are caused by the healing taking place between the photosessions (1 day, 24 hours)

Concept:

I cut letters into my left arm.

1.   day D
2.   day E
3.   day S
4.   day T
5.   day R
6.   day U
7.   day C
8.   day T
9.   day I
10. day O
11. day N

Each day I photograph my arm with the recently cut letter.
Each day a new letter is added so that the word DESTRUCTION appears on the eleventh day.
The healing becomes more and more obvious, the letters appear weaker and so the meaning of the word DESTRUCTION gets destroyed.

Result: DESTRUCTION (here cutwounds on skin) that takes place over time proves to be untrue because of the healing.

Owner: Guðrún Arndís Tryggvadóttir