Days I've Been Alive

A website called Days I've Been Alive was one of the weirdest art project sites I have visited. The site was created by Ron Lent. The site is simple. It consists of rows of white dots on top of a gray background. Each dot represents a day that Lent has been alive. It also provides you with the total number of dots. When i visited the site today that number was 15465.

At first I thought that idea was interesting, but the execution was extremely boring. The website is not visually intriguing and there is no information provided besides the dots, the date, and the name of the site. Then, i began to think about why Lent was counting his days. Is he just appreciating each day? Does he have an illness or something that is limiting how long he has left? I think that he decided not to include any extra information so that the viewers of his site could decide for themselves why someone would want to count the days and maybe even appreciate their own days.