To eat or not to eat - That’s the question. In chilly and cloudy mornings, I often choose to sleep until the last minute and get a cup of coffee at the institute instead of waking up early to cook a decent breakfast. My daily route to school has no transport involved, only on foot, which means the practice of eating sandwiches in the tube, seated, is not for me. In this project, an experiment of bringing breakfast to the street will be carried out. A bowl of crunchy cereal and fresh milk will be taken out to be served on the way. By walking the same route to school at the same time, doing the same thing with the same habit, I shall perform this act of “My Mornings” to my neighbouring street users. Will they accept this culture? Will they criticise? Will they pity? The footage will be focused on the tiny changes of details in this repetitive action and my adaptation to this habit/ culture to bring breakfasts on the way. How much would I sacrifice for sleeping more in cold mornings? And how much can people relate to my behaviour?

GoPro cameras will be set at the point of view of myself, on both my breakfast bowl and the immediate street condition. The experiment will last for a month, whenever I am going out to the institute. The route will be my daily route to school, from Earls Court Garden, through Cromwell Road, Palace Gate and Kensington Road, passing through a few franchised breakfast cafes. No specific devices will be used to facilitate the action, it is the aim to record all uncertainties and adaptation of the action to the environment, for both myself and other street users. An Instagram filter will also be created as a “participating opportunity” for my audience in the final exhibition. This is to facilitate the distribution of emotion in an overly occupied lifestyle.

Videos of different days will be played side by side to compare the different points of view of the action. With reference to Tehching Hsieh “One Year Performance”, and “Martyrs Composite” by Bill Viola, details of events can be captured and compared on screen in motion. The capture of unusual in usual will be the focus. This aims to record any tiny accident which could happen on the way, either related to other street users or just myself. This can be achieved by doing the same action across different weather, days of week, and outfit of each day. How is personal life delivered in person? And how much can actions be distributed across space and time? Besides the tube or the bus, besides sandwiches, can I share my mornings with the neighbourhood by bringing cereal breakfast to the street? Both the action itself, my reflections and the difference in detail of the space and time will be in focus, and their relationships will be studied through direct observation and comparison.