On Kawara

There are quite a few artists working with numbers as art.
For example, On Kawara, paints each single day the date of that day. If he doesnt finish before midnight, he destroys the work. He might just say he does this and instead creates a bunch of paintings in one day. But thats not the point. It is conceptual art. It is the idea that counts. Not the method. Even though the method is as much the idea as the idea is the idea. So you have to "believe" the method of the idea, otherwise you loose the point.
It is intriguing and poetic in a desperate kind of way, to see time passing by as a series of canvases. To imagine the routine. Every day somebody paints a number on a canvas. All his work evolves around time and consciousness. How difficult is it to actually grasp time. How can you really imagine "One Thousand Days One Million Years"? His body of work is amazing.
Like Adrian Searle says: Life is short but sometimes it seems to go on for a very long time, in his article in the Guardian; an essay, and a joke? By? On? On Kawara.