Edition of 160 copies. Roman Opalka (1931-2011) was probably the most insisting conceptual artist of the last century. In 1965, in his studio in Warsaw, Opalka began painting numbers from one to infinity. Starting in the top left-hand corner of the canvas and finishing in the bottom right-hand corner, the tiny numbers were painted in horizontal rows. Each new canvas, which the artist called a 'detail', took up counting where the last left off. In 1968 Opalka introduced to the process a tape recorder, speaking each number into the microphone as he painted it, and also began taking passport-style photographs of himself standing before the canvas after each day's work. This LP is a quite unusual & special recording for Roman Opalka. Unlike the two other LP editions (Edition Block 1977 and Ottenhausen Verlag 1980) this is not a straight document of his working / counting process but a multi-layered collage of his voice.In my attitude, which constitutes a program for my lifetime, progression registers the process of work, documents and defines time.

Only one date appears, 1965, the date when the first "detail" came into being, followed by the sign of infinity, as well as the first and last number of the given "detail".  I am counting progressively from one to infinity, on "details" of the same format ("voyage notes" excluded), by hand, with a brush, with white paint on a grey back ground, with the assumption that the background of each successive "detail" will have 1% more white than the "detail" before it. In connection with this, I anticipate the arrival of the moment when "details" will be identified in white on white. 

Every "detail" is accompanied by a phonetic registration on a tape recorder and a photographic documentation of my face.

-- Roman Opalka