Photograph © Jonathan Hession
In 2011, Ed Miliano began a visual diary, making one picture every day of the view outside his studio window. The paintings are oil on 640 gsm Fabriano Artistico paper and each painting is approximately 16 x 23cm. Diary was exhibited unframed on narrow shelves. It was completed on the 29th of February 2012 and first exhibited at the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin as part of the Futures 12 exhibition in September 2012. Diary was shown again, in a new configuration, at the Oliver Sears Gallery in 2014 as part of a one-man show called The Nature of Time.
13 March 2011
03 April 2011
19 April 2011
04 May 2011
28 May 2011
29 May 2011
14 June 2011
07 July 2011
12 July 2011
24 August 2011
28 August 2011
01 September 2011
15 Sept 2011
25 October 2011
25 October 2011
26 November 21011
30 November 2011
16 December 2011
25 December 2011
02 January 2012
10 January 2012
28 January 2012
09 February 2012
18 February 2012
Above is a selection of the Diary paintings. The title of each painting is simply the date of the day it was painted. The work was shown unframed. Ed built very narrow shelves which were painted to match the wall where the piece was installed. The work was displayed sequentially from the first painting, 03 March 2011 until the last, 29 February 2012. The way it was hung clearly showed a seasonal transition from left to right.
When the artist was living in Japan he commissioned a box-maker to build a box containing the entire project. The paintings are stored in twelve compartments that can each hold one month.
