Jonah Sack is a visual artist working across the realms of painting, sculpture, video, and artist’s books, all of which stem from his practice of drawing. Sack collaborated on Season 5 of The Centre for the Less Good Idea.

In the artist’s words: “The piece came from a series of drawings I was making using found texts. I had been working with descriptions of dreams, and thinking about the changes in experience we undergo every day. I came across a piece of writing from Wittgenstein, which wasn't about dreams but rather about shifts in the kind of attention we pay to everyday objects and events. He asks us to imagine looking in on the life of a real person, not as engaged participants but as floating observers – seeing the events ‘under the aspect of eternity’. Something about that stance creates a sense of the uncanny and the wondrous, even though we're only seeing things we observe everyday. That sense of distance, isolation, and observation-from-a-distance seemed incredibly applicable to our current moment, as did the phrase ‘Someone alone in his room’. In a sense, at the moment we are each both the ‘someone’ alone in their room, and the hovering, disengaged onlooker.”

Concept & Creation | Jonah Sack
Video Editor | Jonah Sack
Curator of The Long Minute | Bronwyn Lace