ABSTRACT
A friend of mine who is an artist recently produced a series of drawings called 24 Hours a Day (Langenhuizen, 1998). In each drawing, green root-like figures stretch horizontally across the page, at times bulbous, and sprouting knobs, at other times narrow and sometimes constricted by black fetters. She explained that the drawings represented the movement of her spirit during the 24 hours in a day. Scanning a drawing from left to right, it was easy to identify the times of growth, times of boredom, and times of pain. I saw that at night, when she is sleeping and dreaming, her spirit has space for roaming, as the roots grew thick and knobby. Daytime also offers opportunities for movement and growth, but at times is constricted, perhaps by duties and obligations. The spatial organization of the drawing, with the 24 hours marked in horizontal intervals, allowed me to quickly infer which times of the day most often lead to growth and which lead to stagnation.
