Tomás Lindgren

Seventy-five-year-old practitioner of a daily index card ritual, unbroken since January 1, 1977 — past card 17,900. Each 4×6 card records: date, weather at 7am, a watercolor swatch of the first color seen when opening curtains, a brief notation, and a sequential red-stamped number. Half-Swedish, half-Chilean. He found On Kawara's date paintings honest but too austere: 'On Kawara removed the weather. I wanted to keep the weather.' His wife Karin died October 14, 2019 — card 15,627 reads: date, grey swatch, 'Karin gick.'