My Life Calendar

My time remaining alive, in one quick glance.

The Calendar app lets one "zoom out" and see any year at a glance. This got me pondering how short a year really is. We make it out to be this grand, unending affair, but it's really just as many days as there are numbers displayed on this small little black screen.

It all began while using an iPhone for the first time.

Naturally, the next step was to screenshot the next three-quarters of the current century (my optimistic life expectancy) and stitch them all together. Having printed this out on an A2 sheet (who knew using black as the background color would result in a ‘wet’ printed sheet) and put it up on my wall, it now lets me have quiet moments with my own mortality. Somewhere among these numbers lies a date on which I will lose people dear to me, get married, and, if the universe wills it, die. They're all right in front of me—each and every day going forward.

I hope more people print out this PDF and glance at it from time to time—and I do believe this might be my first true piece of art.