Time Has Hollows

I am focusing on the experience of time: how it applies to objects, bodies, or space; and how we perceive the quality of time. For the most part, this photographic and video project concentrates on objects. The existence of an object preserves traces of its history: where it came from, where it stayed, whether or not it was abandoned – and for how long, and of being rediscovered. The status of an object reveals its individual past, and the combination of objects points to a universe: the space I live in, and the person as me.

I preserve traces of time in my work, and I remove certain time from objects. If manipulating an object can be seen as removing time – its history – from it, then I create time carriers that carry time with hollows. Time has hollows because I tend to forget. The space contains ignorance, and the image I create preserves the process of ignoring.

In the act of creating images, I try to remove the dust of time, the ignorance of a civilized life that floats in the room and sticks onto the surface of my surroundings. I am learning to confront time. My work focuses on everyday experience. I use photography and video to recreate and to examine these experiences. Sometimes they are my understanding about people, sometimes they reflect the society and city in which I live, and sometimes they answer my doubt about the self. These issues happen so often that it seems normal not to notice them. However, once they trigger our consciousness, they open up a conversation within us.