In her dayinthelife portrait of an AfricanAmerican woman Simpson uses tropes of cinema diary and surveillance The portrait appears on 31 12by9inch flat video screens arrayed on a gallery wall to resemble a month on a calendar a row of three screens tops four rows of seven screens Each video runs about 20 minutes and appears to chronicle the events of a single day most shots last around five seconds and the streams of imagery are not synchronized so viewers face a kinetic panorama Bill Stamets