I Got Up...
On Kawara
Japanese, 1933–2014
1970
A found travel postcard stamped with ink by On Kawara to record the time he got up, turning an everyday image into a small, serialized act of conceptual documentation.
You first notice a wide, sunlit panorama—rows of cultivated fields in the foreground, a lone pale horse, a tidy town beyond, and a massive blue mountain rising behind it all—composed like an ordinary scenic postcard.
Part of Kawara’s 'I Got Up...' series, the work transforms a private, quotidian moment into a serialized bureaucratic record, extending conceptual art into the rhythms of daily life and the practice of timekeeping as self-documentation.
Medium
Stamped ink on postcard
Dimensions
4 x 5 3/4" (10.2 x 14.6 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
The Seth Siegelaub Collection. Gift of Richard S. Zeisler (by exchange)
Accession
324.2010.3
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