A DISTRESSING IMAGE AFTER A SUDDEN INTERRUPTION OF MOVEMENT: AN IMAGE OF TIME (postgraduate project)
Mixed media installation, dimensions variable, 2021 – ongoing / Room 129 /// Distortions and disruptions of time perception may occur after sudden changes in the familiar continuity of everyday events. Personal, social or environmental crises or traumatic experiences disrupt and restructure previous orders. Time's linearity, so useful for orientation, is shaken, torn, or melted, so that individuals may feel crushed or dissolved to the point of non-existence in the midst of shifting social and economic structures. Lightning hits a tree, the tree falls across the road, a car races into the tree. When inertia is forced to change direction, energy is rearranged, and the linearity of time itself seems to splinter and deform. Traces of one movement, interrupted, contract into a collage of discordant sequences. You may find yourself, as it were, in a cove, watching the flow from outside. You may feel as if you had caught a glimpse of time as a whole, and an idea of what Nietzsche could have meant by the "monumentality" of time.
