THE HAVISHAM HOUR

Julio Panisello
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Each day I read a single page of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations. After reading the page I use it as format to create artwork inspired by the words in it. I then scan the sketched page and publish it, along with a brief journal entry and the reading of the page, exactly at 8:40 AM each day, on my local time, the time in the novel when Miss Havisham receives a letter on her wedding day announcing her groom is not showing up. The project started January 7th, 2013 and it will end June 12th, 2014: 521 days, 521 pages, 521 sketches.

  1. 06/02/2014

    THE HAVISHAM HOUR: page 512, read by SMARANDA LUNA

    8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 512 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --Parting has no remedy. You remain silent until you speak, and then the space in your lungs is left empty. We win a victory over nothingness. Nobody cares. If we die in proportion of the words we toss around, then our resting ground is really meaningless. Just turn the lights off before you leave.-- Page read by SMARANDA LUNA here: http://goo.gl/hGDgys. www.HavishamHour.com ©2014 Julio Panisello. The Havisham Hour will end in 1 day.

    2 min

  2. 06/01/2014

    THE HAVISHAM HOUR: page 511, read by VANESSA PLACE

    8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 511 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --Everything is nothing. No one sees majesty and charm in you and me once the freshness of our bodily youth wilts. People only see indescribable sadness. We become invisible and useless. All this ruin...-- Page read by VANESSA PLACE here: http://goo.gl/Wt8eId. www.HavishamHour.com ©2014 Julio Panisello. The Havisham Hour will end in 2 days.

    3 min

  3. 05/31/2014

    THE HAVISHAM HOUR: page 510, read by FARRAH KARAPETIAN

    8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 510 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --Too much self-contemplation will make you not forget anything in your life. Never mind fretting about the mirrors. You have to be truly perverse to understand goodness, and looking endlessly into your own centrifugal self will get you there, quickly. However, I doubt you'll ever be eloquent enough to understand the opposite point. We get stuck on perverse.-- Page read by FARRAH KARAPETIAN here: http://goo.gl/hFrUF2. www.HavishamHour.com ©2014 Julio Panisello. The Havisham Hour will end in 3 days.

    2 min

  4. 05/29/2014

    THE HAVISHAM HOUR: page 508, read by NICHOLAS FENNESSY

    8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 508 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --Am I an inept artist? No, just dishonest and predictable. There is no secret formula to be an artist, you just have to do a good job at it and share it in the end, that's all. There are no shortcuts. Charlatanism + ecstasy=lazy art, right?-- Page read by NICHOLAS FENNESSY here: http://goo.gl/xh0WVd. www.HavishamHour.com ©2014 Julio Panisello. The Havisham Hour will end in 5 days.

    15 sec

  5. 05/28/2014

    THE HAVISHAM HOUR: page 507, read by CHRIS PARIS

    8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 507 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --We live frugally and then we say goodbye, that's the goal. In reality we always aspire to quit everything, and we repetitively ask for forgiveness. Life says goodbye to us instead. And then we turn to dust. The end -- Page read by CHRIS PARIS here: http://goo.gl/7oLZzx. www.HavishamHour.com ©2014 Julio Panisello. The Havisham Hour will end in 6 days.

    2 min

  6. 05/27/2014

    THE HAVISHAM HOUR: page 506, read by MAT GLEASON

    8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 506 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --Waiting with a quivering lip for answers, I melted after a string of non-words. Life is impossible at low temperature, that's why I reached the conclusion that Silence cannot accept normal temperatures and therefore it is doomed to fall.-- Page read by MAT GLEASON here: http://goo.gl/grNIVv. www.HavishamHour.com ©2014 Julio Panisello. The Havisham Hour will end in 7 days.

    2 min

  7. 05/26/2014

    THE HAVISHAM HOUR: page 505, read by SEAN RILEY

    8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 505 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --How smart are you and I? Under duress, we become too obsessed with survival issues, neglecting creativity and love. If we stop analyzing, pondering, figuring out, measuring and weighting every issue we will become smarter. I know, you don't believe me, do you?-- Page read by SEAN RILEY here: http://goo.gl/V8UrOY. www.HavishamHour.com ©2014 Julio Panisello. The Havisham Hour will end in 8 days.

    2 min

  8. 05/25/2014

    THE HAVISHAM HOUR: page 504, read by AARON KUNIN

    8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 504 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --"It" is that place where things are divided between Blue and Green. When you return to "it", your heart softens. You can eat pizza there all day long. By the way, any pizza is a personal pizza if you try hard and believe in yourself. But you heart is hard, you never try anything, and you don't believe in yourself: you will never return.-- Page read by AARON KUNIN here: http://goo.gl/h56Ilo. www.HavishamHour.com ©2014 Julio Panisello. The Havisham Hour will end in 9 days.

    3 min
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Each day I read a single page of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations. After reading the page I use it as format to create artwork inspired by the words in it. I then scan the sketched page and publish it, along with a brief journal entry and the reading of the page, exactly at 8:40 AM each day, on my local time, the time in the novel when Miss Havisham receives a letter on her wedding day announcing her groom is not showing up. The project started January 7th, 2013 and it will end June 12th, 2014: 521 days, 521 pages, 521 sketches.

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  • Creator
    Julio Panisello
  • Years Active
    2013 - 2014
  • Episodes
    94
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    ©2013 Julio Panisello
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