A Measure of Days is a project sustained by a simple daily practice: since February 2024, one small collage has been created each day. Individually these works function as autonomous pieces; together they form a growing field in which relationships take shape through accumulation, repetition and variation. Meaning is not predetermined but arises from the changing constellation they form.

The field can be presented in different configurations that respond to the architecture of each exhibition space. It may occupy one continuous wall, unfold across multiple walls as a continuous horizontal field, or take the form of a dense rectangular configuration. Paintings extend the same visual language at a larger scale, becoming part of the same evolving system rather than separate bodies of work.

As well as documenting the passage of time, the project makes time itself spatially visible. Each presentation represents the current state of a work that continues to grow as individual collages and paintings enter collections. Their continued dispersal forms the Dispersed Field, extending the project beyond any single exhibition.

Frank den Os (1965, NL) works with collage and painting.
He lives and works in Crozon-sur-Vauvre, France.