Journal, In Progress is a photographic self-portrait project made everyday between January 1994 and January 2009. A total of 15 years, 31 days, over 5000 photographs with a total running length of over 110 feet. The project is shown in strips of 17 Polaroids, which equals the artist’s height of 5’6”. Begun as a way of measuring daily growth and change, it became a series that explores issues of identity, gender and the body. As a daily ritual, the project records both the banality and beauty of everyday experiences, both physical and emotional; the raw, personal and sometimes frivolous nature of the photographs demythologizes the self with humor and vulnerability while creating an imperfect memorial to the everyday. The project has shown in many forms — as installation, video and inkjet prints as the Volatile Bodies subproject. The project ended when Polaroid stopped producing Spectra film, and the rise of “selfie” culture began to shift the meaning of self-portraiture.