Roman Opalka and the Decades Long Number Exercise

I just recently learned about Roman Opalka and his lifelong art project painting to infinity.

In 1965, he decided to "to paint numbers that would progress sequentially from one canvas to the next for the duration of his life. " Starting on a black canvas he started painting these sequential Details for years. Around 1968, he starts to add 1% white to the canvas with the ultimate goal that the paintings would eventually have a fully white background with white numbers on top.

I'm usually not a big fan of these sorts of "invisible" works but there is something admirably meditative about the act of painting from 1965 to 2011 to the point where its not even visible.