"Desiderata"
Desiderata 2003
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Much of my current work deal with the impact of trauma on perception. This piece is an attempt to simulate my experience of time as it relates to memory. Time as a unit of measurement is sequential, horizontal, one moment following the last. While
this is useful for science and language, the "duration" of an experience is generally determined by the intensity of the experience, not by the amount of time which has passed. In trauma, this becomes accentuated: a single moment in time seems to stretc
h and reverberate ad infinitum, while the actual time passing while performing a mundane task, such as a drive to the store, can seem to disappear entirely from memory, thereby collapsing time.
"Self Portrait: Desiderata V.1" A Three Projection Installation
Desiderata V.1 2003
Desiderata 2003
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Much of my current work deal with the impact of trauma on perception. This piece is an attempt to simulate my experience of time as it relates to memory. Time as a unit of measurement is sequential, horizontal, one moment following the last. While this is useful for science and language, the "duration" of an experience is generally determined by the intensity of the experience, not by the amount of time which has passed. In trauma, this becomes accentuated: a single moment in time seems to stretc h and reverberate ad infinitum, while the actual time passing while performing a mundane task, such as a drive to the store, can seem to disappear entirely from memory, thereby collapsing time.
"Self Portrait: Desiderata V.1" A Three Projection Installation
Desiderata V.1 2003
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