And time yet for a hundred indecisions… is a series of paintings based on Glenn Gould’s annotations from his 1981 recording of J.S Bach Goldberg Variations. They depict the marks, indications, and notes Gould would write on Bach’s scores; and frame the historical condition of decision-making.
Bach rarely left any instruction or musical remark on the dynamics, tempo and articulation of his musical expression. Thus, Gould’s annotations rely on instinct, mood, judgment, knowledge, subjectivities, just as any other interpretation in history.
Every action such as discarding, deleting, adding or incorporating leaves a trace, whether visible or not, and it is a fundamental part of every process in any artistic expression. The paintings recall how each choice structures ultimately how history is translated, narrated, archived or remembered.