Thing-A-Day day 16: Twitter feed painting

This concept combines last week’s MAPPING theme with REPETITION. I’m painting my Twitter feed on canvas as a way to take this weird, impermanent digital medium which itself is about sharing transient moments, and capturing it in a permanent way.

Also, I realize as I paint each letter painstakingly by hand, it’s about deliberation. So many Tweets are just throwaway, random thoughts, but I’m forced to look at them differently when I’m rendering every one of the 140-or-so characters by hand.

In-progress pics: