Durational Instant

We easily think that we “look at time” through the process of changes in an object’s appearance, or by observing phenomena. In fact, it is not an act of “looking” at the flow of time itself but of “understanding” the changes in the object based on the viewer’s learned memory. In other words, it is a process of realizing differences of time through the agency of images stored within us as memory via our experiences, which is projected into “now,” rather than time itself. Also, we are prone to understanding segmentally occurring events within the frame of the continuation of time. This means that we make the mistake of perceiving separate events as a sequence that has a unilateral flow by imaginarily connecting them. My work titled Durational Instant is an attempt to make these recognition errors visible. At first glance, the work appears to be a familiar landscape without a hint of oddity, border, or crevice, but it grows to feel somewhat awkward when closely reviewed, because there is time and space that disappears between the scenes. Familiar scenes we routinely face in everyday life are perhaps the totality of the segmented events that are stitched together in our interpretive imagination of the quality of time, as the image Durational Instant suggests.

 

3Minutes 15Meters_60x20in_C Print_2014

 

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Durational instant_26x26in_Photo Collage_2014

Durational instant_26x26in_Photo Collage_2014