Week4 (2): Writing Component – (Draft) Conclusion Only

If you could fly around time, what do you think you would find? A moment has layers which possesses ‘invisible’ parts of the past, future, and even different perceptual senses in its hidden dimension.

Time does not flow as the way we normally think. In the movie ‘Interstellar’(2014) by Christopher Nolan, the time that the protagonist experienced spreads out and can be roamed around in a hypercube, the Tesseract. It led the project to the phase where visualizes this multi-dimensional aspect of time within the spatial concept. Photography is a medium that records and captures the moment of time and its printed result is perceived as CMYK. This method of expressing ‘the nonlinearity of time’ has involved layering the photographs of the process on the bread mold. The mold-generating process for 8 days has been layered with a wide range of diversity in a selection of photos and digital methods. A layered set of colours and different times show the fact that every moment can happen in a simultaneous manner. These layered and CMYK combination photos represent possible and imaginative visual scenarios of four-dimensional time. Perceived combinations of layered photographs became extended to an introduction of printing test sheets since they prompt our perception to recognize the scene (or moment). Video work ‘The Layered and Multifaceted’ highlights the agenda of the practice: A moment possess not only ‘visible’ parts but also ‘invisible’ parts of the past, future, and even different perceptual senses and perspective in its hidden dimension. 

The case study was examined as follows: (1)Distortion (Shutter Speed) (2)Sound & Video (Granular Synthesis Model 5) (3)Movement (Etienne-Jules Marey) (4)Visualisation (Shape-Time Photography). Shutter speed relates to the practice since it shows the trace of the motion as flowing time and creates a stillness on the frozen frame. Especially, it creates motion blur which gives another perspective towards time that we cannot observe with bare eyes, a distortion if the shutter speed is long enough. Granular Synthesis sound system utilizes both times and enhances the general time-sensitive atmosphere, which can be applied to the practice. Especially, in the sense that this sound system has various control over waveform, envelope, duration, and spatial position, it has possibilities to expand the practice with sound perspective versions of iterations along with the images and video. Marey’s chronophotograph inspired the practice around the movement: The connected flow of different actions can become the source of visualising the spatial properties of time. The movements become individual or subtle connected elements to one another which can be translated into rendering in three-dimension.  Lastly, Shape-Time photography shares an essential exploration of time and attempts to visualise this invisible moment. My practice has its visual base as two-dimensional aspect of four-dimension. Utilizing a 3D rendering approach could expand the direction and possibilities for the next practice.

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